About Our Founder, Brian D. France, BSN, RN
Brian France, BSN, RN began his career in healthcare while working for the Maryland State Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS). Brian worked his way up from personnel to an appointment as Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of Operations for that agency. However, when the Deputy Secretary retired, Brian found an opportunity as the Chief of Staff to the Chief Medical Director for DPSCS. In this new role Brian expanded on his health care management and executive administration capacity. Outside of general healthcare surveillance of the population and outcomes, components of inmate health including policy, medical, dental, mental health and substance abuse treatments were all contracts in which Brian ensured were being implemented and executed in accordance with the agreements and statutes.
Brian is a smart, experienced, empathetic, invested, compassionate, sensitive, and an emotionally-intelligent nurse leader. Brian’s professional medical ethic developed in high acuity and intense medical settings across multiple states – Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and Emergency Departments in several metropolitan areas. He has trained in various settings as a registered nurse from the Johns Hopkin’s System Sibley Memorial Hospital Intensive Care Unit, University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center (STC) neurotrauma unit , a highly ranked Trauma Center and teaching hospital and several hospitals in the Veterans Administration Hospital System critical care units and Emergency Departments. He has also managed a substance abuse treatment facility which is one of the oldest in Maryland. His practice always incorporates a mindset oriented toward providing high quality and equitable care and access for those in his care or service. Initially the disparities in high quality, equitable and accessible care was also a significant driver for his entrance into nursing. Serving patients across a spectrum from trauma survivors, to incarcerated patients, to veterans, to those in the midst of and recovering from substance abuse has made him a skilled and versatile administrator with an eye for detail, strategy and vision and care coordination.
A few of the equitable, trauma-informed and care-centric medical initiatives he has been apart of long before they became customary include:
Ending the practice of incarcerated pregnant female patients being restrained while being transported/escorted.
Using telemedicine to provide care long before the arrival of COVID-19 to facilitate the decrease the need to transport inmates, improve safety outcomes for staff and increase accessibility outcomes for inmate patients to accessing providers.
Honoring appropriate gender-affirming care in collaboration with the individual’s specialist while incarcerated.
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Our Vision & Purpose
Our vision for American Nursing is inspired by our founders transformative experience as a patient. Surviving a life-threatening traumatic injury, vivid memories of his recovery process coupled with the care he received at the notable trauma hospital he later returned to work at as an RN impacted him in ways that inspire his practice philosophy as a caregiver and clinician.
These collective lived experiences and intersectional identities, brings awareness to those who are often overlooked in healthcare. The sum of experiences in various healthcare systems has inspired our team to address biases, prejudice, and discrimination that impact the patient and nurse experience. This is why American Nursing LLC’s motto is “smart, compassionate care.”
Smart: This is not just about academic knowledge and medical facts. The depth and breadth of medical knowledge is compounded with empathy, and a personalized approach informed by demographics and identity as well as medically relevant issues in each client case while employing emotional intelligence as well . Our clinical care is also smart by providing best practices; and being aware of what healthcare is missing when deviations to the standards are challenge the nursing process.
Compassionate: Being mindful of the suffering and changes that are often beyond the control of those needing medical attention, our clinicians will treat those who entrust their care to us like you would want your family members to be treated. Empathy and compassion go hand in hand, as do listening, patience and genuine concern for another human being’s wellness, and ability to return to or getting as close to at least surviving and at best, thriving in their own unique life circumstances.
Care: We commit to remembering the care in healthcare when it’s easy to get bombarded and overwhelmed with health information and for a person to feel like a number or a case, we center every person’s humanity, remembering they are not a patient - but someone experiencing medical challenges who need specialized support.