CLAFH Framework:
Nurse-led Model of Care

Because nurses constitute the nation’s largest group of health care professionals, CLAFH  designed a model of care that leverages this expert and most trusted workforce to meaningfully advance whole-person health and end health and health care inequities.

CLAFH’s Nurse-led Model of Care draws upon a critical appraisal of the extant literature on health care delivery characteristics with demonstrated utility for eliminating health inequities. The model’s nine components, embedded within nursing practice, inform the integrated framework for a nurse-led model of care that can be applied across health care settings. Numerous existing nurse-led programs apply these components across settings, populations, and conditions to improve outcomes.

Utilizing the nine components of nursing practice illustrated below, nurses would be well-positioned to lead the advancement of innovative care models in the elimination of health inequities. Each component has utility for addressing one of the priority areas; however, these components are not mutually exclusive to specific priority areas.

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