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Perspectives, tools, and frameworks at the intersection of health, leadership, and systems. Designed to help people live well, lead fully, and thrive together.
Featured Work
The Access Framework for providing Disability-Informed Trauma Care.
In this presentation, for the Society of Trauma Nurses I:
Provided evidence-based strategies to improve assessment, communication, and clinical decision-making for patients with disabilities.
Described how bias contributes to disparities and missed diagnoses in trauma settings.
Showed how the ACCESS Framework for Disability-Informed Trauma Care, which I developed to capture the key steps in providing disability-informed trauma care to people with disabilities, can be used within acute care trauma settings to provide equitable, quality care and interrupt bias.
reflections
From the Archives
Enjoy the Detour?
The short version of all of this is that life is more like a detour than a straight path for each of us. The long story is that the detours add up to our life.