Azza Ezzat

Dr. Azza Ezzat DNP, RN, FNP-BC graduated as a Doctor of Nursing Practice in 2017 from Wagner College. She secured a

Master of Nursing Science degree in 2003 from Wagner College.

She is a family nurse practitioner, who is board certified by the American Nurse Association and licensed by the state of New York to provide family-centered healthcare to patients of all ages. The scope of her practice encompasses health promotion, disease prevention, diagnosis, and management of common and complex health care problems that begin in childhood and continue with age.

In 2008, she also founded Aging Well Family Health, a community health service that provides the specialized Personal Preference Care Model—an interdisciplinary team model that integrates disciplines to collaboratively develop a patient-centered care plan with a focus on chronic disease prevention and management and health promotion, utilizing a creative blend of nursing (caring) and medicines (cure) in dealing with long-term disease and chronic conditions that increasingly challenge services nationally and globally—in long-term care facilities. The model has been shown to improve the process of care, patient-provider communication, prescription practices, and physical functions of the patients. The Patient Preference Care Model was shown to reduce costs and 30-day readmissions.

She has been working at Various long-term care facilities as a nurse practitioner, providing after-hours expert medical coverage and services for about 17 years. She also possesses rich work experience in performance improvement in long-term facilities, quality improvement, health care operations, and executive leadership within the long-term care setting. In addition to

over 25 years of hands-on experience as a Registered Nurse in providing education to the residents and their families, she has developed educational tools to assist in making the personal preference treatment plan part of advance care planning and palliative care management with the “Feel Well, Live Longer” approach.

She instituted and chaired direct administrative oversight of all patient care activities and staff at multiple long-term care facilities.

She is directly responsible for the following improvements:

• Reduced hospital transfers by less than 5% over 5 years by starting telecare on-call services 24/7;

• Decreased fall and in-house pressure ulcers to below the benchmark in multiple facilities;

• Served as an organizational audit readiness consultant at multiple long-term care facilities; and

• Served as the team leader of a successful wound care program at New Vanderbilt Home, in pain management and palliative care.

Throughout her career, she has contributed to the nursing and medical community through her professional memberships and associations and participation in education and mentorship. She served as an adjunct professor at the College of Staten Island for about 3 years and mentored others from different universities and colleges, and most of her mentees are now colleagues in her practice.

She worked at Edger Home and Rehabilitation Center for about 5 years as a Nursing Supervisor, RN Nurse Educator. She also worked at New Vanderbilt Nursing Home as an RN, Nurse Manager, Nursing Supervisor, and NP for over 25 years. She possesses the National Certification for Foreign Nurse—Registered Nurse. She has also worked for about 3 years at King Faisel Hospital & Research Center-Fellowship-Saudi Arabia and for about 2 years at Arab Contractor Medical Center-Fellowship in Cairo, Egypt.

She graduated with a Bachelor’s in Nursing from Alexandrea Nursing University of Alexandria, Egypt, in 1982. She also completed an internship for a year in Alexandrea University Hospital in 1983.

Languages Spoken

• English; and

• Arabic

Certifications

• Family Health.

• PICC & IV; and

• CPR.

Professional Memberships /Associations

• American Nurse Association.

• International Nurse Practitioner Association.

• New York State Nurse Educators Association.

• Tristate Association of Nurse Managers.

• International Registered Nurse Association; and

• Organization of Arab Nurse Interns and Fellows.

Publications

• Author of Make your Dream Come True (2013); and

• Co-author of Overcoming Cultural Bias as a Roadblock to Success (2012)

The Next Big Think Possibilities --Road map to Success approach.

Pending Publications

• Culturally Specific Palliative Care Educational Program in Long-Term Care Facility; and

• Dust Dancing on Sunbeams (A motivational guide for patients to be partners with their health care provider).

Specialties

• Family medicine.

• Preventive and restorative medicine.

• Family health wellness and health promotion.

• Geriatrics management.

• Palliative and pain care management.

• Long-term care navigator.

• Founder of the Patient Preference Care Model; and

• “Feel better, live longer” cardiac care management and self-care education—telecare approach in nursing homes.

Professional Statement

Dr. Azza Ezzat DNP, RN, FNP-BC, despite not being a native Staten Islander, understands the needs and concerns of patients with culture-specific values and needs. She recognizes and embraces the body’s innate ability to self-repair and knows to employ self-healing mechanisms with the power of the mind. She is aware of how thoughts and feelings can alter the body’s physiology. She also understands the negative impact of fear, anxiety, pessimism, and depression on the body. She is of the view that by providing a supportive relationship, authentic self-expression and self-efficacy can ignite the body’s self-healing process. She is passionate to understand what makes people heal faster and pre-disposes them to illness. She has been studying and researching how physicians, nurses, and healthcare providers can better care for their patients by understanding the patients’ culture-specific needs and values and empowering them to care for themselves and express their needs and values.

Her mission is to create healthy caring living for individual , families and their community and to Promote health care equity and disparities challenged by poverty discrimination and lack of access to care services. By promoting and enhancing advanced practice Nursing professional . supporting developing and disseminating professional practice innovation ,collaborating in a professional manor that demonstrate Global respect for humanity .

and to Empower patients and their families to play a more active role in the treatment plan to achieve the goal of treatment. She believes that nurses, as a group, must lead each other towards the path of success to affirm the hard-earned title of being “caring caregivers.” As a nurse leader, she believes that education makes all the difference, bringing about a change that lasts forever, personally and professionally.

She also believes that nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training. Nurses should be full partners with physicians and achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression. She is also of the opinion that effective workforce planning and policy making require better data collection and information infrastructure.

(Institute of medicine of the national academies 2010)

She is committed to leading the journey to teach the importance and value of culture-specific approach in caring for individual needs¸ building communication skills to bridge the gap between individuals, groups, and communities, and supporting the role of the healthcare industry to embrace and promote population health outcome ,Removing Obstacles to health care, promoting an atmosphere of professional collaboration, innovation in professional practice that enables patients to maximize their individuality, independence, and dignity with the instinctive ability to focus on each residents’ specific needs, desires, and quality of life.

a Model that demonstrate universal respect for others built on honesty and integrity ,promoting the Evolution of advanced practice nurse and its growth mission.

To paraphrase Ralph Waldo Emerson, in uniting our differences into a common goal, everyone has the power to make a difference in the universe. We do not have to change the world, but we can make a difference. We all contribute to improving the quality of life in so many ways. To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.