Barbara
MacArthur,
MN, RN, FAAN
Director, The Kansas Nursing Workforce Center
University of Kansas Medical Center
Barbara MacArthur has combined clinical practice, research, education and executive leadership across her professional career. Her postgraduate studies included Clinical Ethics Intensive certification from Georgetown University, and she was a Washington Annenberg Program Fellow in Public Policy and Communication. Five governors in three states have appointed Barbara to public service commissions. She has testified before the US Congress, served on NIH panels and was a member of two Institute of Medicine committees, all related to organ transplantation—both nationally and internationally. Her current work focuses on measuring the things that matter to educate, retain and sustain the nursing workforce.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background: Like most states, Kansas has struggled to have enough well-trained nurses and nurse aides to staff our long-term care communities and due to a shortage of nursing faculty, Kansas lacks the capacity to educate enough new nurses to meet the demand for care. While we have effective, evidence-based geriatric models of care, we have a know-do gap in which less than 10 percent of older adults are reached who benefit from these models. A new statewide practice-education partnership between long-term care professionals and nurse educators seeks to advance 4Ms care, bridge the know-do gap…