Suzanne
Smeltzer,
EdD RN FAAN
Professor
Villanova University
Suzanne C. Smeltzer, EdD, RN, FAAN is Professor Emerita at Villanova University College of Nursing. She has led the efforts on inclusion of disability-related content and experiences, including those related to IDD, in the undergraduate and graduate programs at Villanova and national dissemination of strategies to address disability in nursing education and practice. She has published extensively on disability and education of health care professionals about disability ti improve the health and health care of individuals with disability.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Poster Description:
Background: The Partnering to Transform Health Outcomes with Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (PATH-PWIDD) Program, funded by the Administration for Community Living, is a workforce development program aimed at improving the education of healthcare professional students in the health of persons with IDD through implementation of interprofessional curricular materials and practice experiences at our five core partner institutions.
Design: The Collective Impact Model is our organizing framework and we are guided conceptually by the approach of Participatory Action.…