Benefits of nurses in communities are multiple, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Trust is a major barrier for many when it comes to interactions with healthcare providers and our current system, and community based nurses may help. Sarah Szanton, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, has created a program called Neighborhood Nursing with an eye toward improving these relationships.

Szanton: A lot of people don't trust their health care providers and nurses are the most trusted. We could be developing a lot of trust in the community also then people would know oh, for this I really do need to go in or something is more than can be handled where they are. Trust might translate. I also think that as more and more happens with remote monitoring, which people are nervous about understandably, that if they've got someone in their home who's walking them through it and that that could help develop trust in terms of the systems that we built.     :31

Szanton notes that as things like hospital at home and remote monitoring become an expectation, trust is fundamental to success. At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.