A roadmap for the nursing scientific workforce to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.

BACKGROUND

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Ending Unequal Treatment report emphasizes immediate actions to eliminate health inequities (i.e., solutions-oriented health inequity research), versus incrementally advancing health equity. Nurse scientists are uniquely positioned to lead national efforts to eliminate health inequities.

PURPOSE

To outline nursing science's contributions to solutions-oriented health inequity research, highlight opportunities and challenges for nursing leadership, and key competencies for which workforce support infrastructure is needed.

METHODS

We draw on the landmark 2024 Ending Unequal Treatment report, supplemented by a review of the literature on scientific nursing-specific workforce challenges.

DISCUSSION

We identify strategies for sustaining and advancing nursing science's leadership in solutions-oriented health inequity research, including objectives, competencies, and programmatic elements needed to support current and future nurse investigators.

CONCLUSION

Bolstering the nursing scientific workforce in solutions-oriented health inequity will elevate the critical role of nursing science in eliminating health inequities and improving population health.

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of Competing Interest Dr. Vincent Guilamo-Ramos served as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) Committee on Unequal Treatment Revisited, which developed the Ending Unequal Treatment report, and serves as part of the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) National Advisory Council for Nursing Research. The NINR National Advisory Council for Nursing Research had no role in the preparation, review, or approval of this Nursing Outlook article or the decision to submit the paper for publication. In addition, Dr. Guilamo-Ramos also of the US Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS; of the CDC/HRSA Advisory Committee on HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and STD Prevention and Treatment; and of the HHS Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.