In this Issue Brief, Danielle Pierotti RN, MSN, AOCN, PhD(c), Director of Clinical Practice and Chief Nurse for HCI Care Services in Des Moines, Iowa, discusses how clinicians and patients in her program collaborate effectively on medication management, allowing the patient to be placed at the center of care, rather than cost.

In this Issue Brief, Margaret “Peg” Terry, PhD, RN, Vice President of Quality and Innovation at VNAA and Norene Mostkoff, President and CEO, HCI Care Services and Visiting Nurse Services  of Iowa and Chair of the VNAA Hospice Roundtable, discuss the imperatives behind creating VNAA's newest Blueprint for Excellence: Hospice and Palliative Care.

This new issue brief describes how, as the guardian at the intersection between acute care and primary care, VNAA brings a critical perspective to health care delivery. VNAA members are uniquely suited to improve transitions in ways that lead to better outcomes, lower costs and enhanced patient experience. The VNAA Blueprint for Excellence, a new quality improvement and workforce training resource, provides concrete proof.