Strategies

What Works for Health includes evidence-informed strategies to create communities where everyone can thrive.

2 Strategies matching mental health
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Nurse practitioner scope of practice

Use regulation to extend nurse practitioners’ (NPs’) scope of practice to provide care to the full scope of their training and skills without physician oversight, especially for primary care
Evidence Rating:
Scientifically Supported

Community Conditions

  • Clinical care

Societal Rules

  • Laws and policies
  • Worldviews, culture and norms

Trauma-informed health care

Adopt universal trauma precautions and provide trauma-specific care to patients in health care organizations
Evidence Rating:
Expert Opinion

Community Conditions

  • Clinical care

Societal Rules

  • Institutional practices
  • Worldviews, culture and norms