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Development of a university nursing health clinic

Émilie Hudon and Veronique Dauwe
The Annals of Family Medicine November 2023, 21 (Supplement 3) 5087; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.22.s1.5087
Émilie Hudon
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Veronique Dauwe
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Context The university community encompasses diverse characteristics, including various age groups and cultures. Since 2010, the number of international students in Canada has doubled (Yamba et al., 2021). The university’s reality requires expertise in primary care, which is provided by registered nurses (RNs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) specializing in primary health care (PHNs). They contribute to proximity of care by promoting access to health care and services for the university community, including the student community, which is among the clientele that underuse health care system resources (Romo et al., 2019). Furthermore, international students generally do not have access to a family doctor. Thus, it was necessary to make health care and services accessible to our university community through a clinic.

Objective, population and setting The objective is to develop and implement the CUSI, a nurse-led clinic, to increase health care access for the entire university community of Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada. The clinic’s mission is threefold: clinical practice, teaching and research.

Study The development of the clinic followed the ten steps to setting up a nurse-led clinic (Hatchett, 2008) and the AGILE approach to project development (Cobb, 2011; Project Management Institute, 2018). The AGILE approach facilitates the use of an iterative cycle process in collaboration with the community and partners. It was operated based on the organic nursing model proposed by Contandriopoulos et al. (2017), a hypothetical model which emphasizes intra-professional collaboration and nursing expertise. This model enables the full occupancy of the clinical nurse role through the support of PHNs.

Analysis and outcomes measure We analyzed the consultations using quantitative descriptive statistics, including continuous variables (number of consultations and visits with RNs or PHNs, number of medical referrals, number of reserved activities) and categorical variables (number of persons by age group, access to a family doctor).

Results The CUSI was opened in February 2023. Half of the university students who visited the CUSI do not have access to a family doctor and are international students. Only 10% of the visits could not be handled exclusively by RNs and PHNs.

Conclusions The CUSI was implemented to provide care to university community employees and students.

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