Nurses' perceptions: Addressing social determinants of health to improve patient outcomes. 2021

Janet U Schneiderman, and Ellen F Olshansky
Nursing Department, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Nursing organizations and leaders adopted the social determinants of health (SDOH) as essential to the delivery of health care, but little is known about working registered nurses' (hereafter nurses) views on the SDOH. The purpose of this study was to (1) explore nurses' perceptions of how SDOH affect patient care and (2) describe nurses' ideas about how SDOH can be addressed to improve outcomes and services. Thirteen registered nurses with a baccalaureate in nursing beginning their online graduate advanced practice educational program were interviewed. This qualitative descriptive study used constant comparative analysis for data analysis. The analysis found two major themes: (1) SDOH are integrated into the nurses' care. The SDOH experienced by patients challenges the nurses to provide care at the patient's level and to provide usable patient education, and (2) health-care delivery change is needed to achieve equity and to provide health care to those in need. The nurses recommended more organized, seamless health-care delivery and interdisciplinary advocacy to achieve these needed changes. Nurse educators and nurse leaders can harness the frustration and ingenuity of nurses to help the nurses advocate for health-care change that integrates the SDOH.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D009726 Nurses Professionals qualified by graduation from an accredited school of nursing and by passage of a national licensing examination to practice nursing. They provide services to patients requiring assistance in recovering or maintaining their physical or mental health. Nursing Personnel,Personnel, Nursing,Registered Nurses,Nurse,Nurse, Registered,Nurses, Registered,Registered Nurse
D010465 Perception The process by which the nature and meaning of sensory stimuli are recognized and interpreted. Sensory Processing,Processing, Sensory
D003695 Delivery of Health Care The concept concerned with all aspects of providing and distributing health services to a patient population. Delivery of Dental Care,Health Care,Health Care Delivery,Health Care Systems,Community-Based Distribution,Contraceptive Distribution,Delivery of Healthcare,Dental Care Delivery,Distribution, Non-Clinical,Distribution, Nonclinical,Distributional Activities,Healthcare,Healthcare Delivery,Healthcare Systems,Non-Clinical Distribution,Nonclinical Distribution,Activities, Distributional,Activity, Distributional,Care, Health,Community Based Distribution,Community-Based Distributions,Contraceptive Distributions,Deliveries, Healthcare,Delivery, Dental Care,Delivery, Health Care,Delivery, Healthcare,Distribution, Community-Based,Distribution, Contraceptive,Distribution, Non Clinical,Distributional Activity,Distributions, Community-Based,Distributions, Contraceptive,Distributions, Non-Clinical,Distributions, Nonclinical,Health Care System,Healthcare Deliveries,Healthcare System,Non Clinical Distribution,Non-Clinical Distributions,Nonclinical Distributions,System, Health Care,System, Healthcare,Systems, Health Care,Systems, Healthcare
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D036301 Qualitative Research Any type of research that employs nonnumeric information to explore individual or group characteristics, producing findings not arrived at by statistical procedures or other quantitative means. (Qualitative Inquiry: A Dictionary of Terms Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997) Research, Qualitative
D064890 Social Determinants of Health The circumstances in which people are born, grow up, live, work, and age, as well as the systems put in place to deal with illness. These circumstances are in turn shaped by a wider set of forces: economics, social policies, and politics (http://www.cdc.gov/socialdeterminants/). Commercial Determinants of Health,Socio-Economic Determinants of Health,Structural Determinants of Health,Socio Economic Determinants of Health

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