Azza Ezzat.

Professional Statement

عزه عزت

is devoted to promoting the practice of extreme self-care so that people can reach their greatest potential. Its core mission is to apply the science of servant leadership, human caring and flourishing to help people avoid toxic stress in relationships and  adapt a lifestyle of our choice  in order to sidestep hosting preventable chronic illnesses and all of the limitations they bring. We are partnering and  committed to using evidence and self-awareness to promote broadly defined health and  wellness and address issues such as how to differentiate self-care from selfishness, how to not be enslaved by stress and all of the consequences of it, how to locate ones North Star, deal effectively with difficult others, how to set personal policies, how to use the science of habit formation and achieve mastery over the regulation of the self, how to cultivate wisdom and resilience and how better to deploy the evidence on what it takes to undergo long term, intentional change and flourish as a human being.

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 how thoughts and feeling 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 living in long-term care facilities and health care setting globally, and 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)

 Azza Ezzat 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 the 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 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.

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 a 5-year period 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 college, 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)

·      Author of The Next Big Think ! possibilities.

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.