Sharon Wallace is a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who cares for adults in a community mental healthcare clinic. She attended the Young School of Nursing at Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts.
Sharon is a lifelong learner who values clinical excellence and is guided by years of experience in trauma critical care, leadership, and nursing education. She is passionate about caring for humans and believes communication, collaboration, and creative problem-solving achieve the best possible outcomes.
Through participation in the Integrated Care Training Program, she will:
- Appraise the evidence base for implementing Integrated Care in community health settings.
- Explore the role of Integrated Care to strengthen and expand community access to mental health care.
- Incorporate repeated measurements to inform my practice and improve treatment outcomes and patient lives.
- Examine the relationship between Integrated Care and the health outcomes of different populations.
In the next 5 years, she anticipates that Integrated Care will incorporate flexible collaborative teams to cross physical settings or use technology to address specialized care needs when physical boundaries can’t be crossed. These teams will enhance health management and improve the quality of life for people living in metropolitan cities and rural towns. The current US health system is perceived to be a social determinant of health due to a lack of access for many people. Social care will be developed and implemented to effectively impact social determinants of health associated with access to care.