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    Apply for the 2024 Health Equity and Nursing Innovations Fund

    This RFP seeks innovative solutions that create systemic change, strengthen and diversify the nursing workforce, expand nurse recruitment and retention strategies, and create and sustain healthy work environments.

    Nursing Workforce and Healthy Work Environments
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    Apply for the Equity-Minded Nurse Awards Program

    Are you a nurse working to promote health equity through teaching, leading, or practicing equity-minded nursing or do you know an equity-minded nurse? Submit an application by April 30.

    Equity-Minded Nurse Awards

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  1. Now Accepting Nominations for Equity-Minded Nurse Award Program

    Mar 28, 2024

    The AARP Center for Health Equity through NursingSM (A-CHEN) and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, with support from national nursing organizations, is pleased to open a call for applications for the Equity-Minded Nurse Awards Program to recognize nurses who are more

  2. Social Determinants of Health. Now what?

    Mar 22, 2024

    Getty Image: Portrait of multigenerational family standing of front porch of home I am fortunate enough to have the opportunity to share my thoughts about the importance of the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) framework and advancing health equity. So, what is this and more

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  3. Request for Proposals: Nursing Workforce and Healthy Work Environments

    Feb 15, 2024

    AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN Critical Care), and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, are pleased to announce a request for proposals through the 2024 Health more

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    Mar 06, 2024

    AARP Center for Health Equity through Nursing and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action have sharpened the dashboard to focus on improving access to care and diversifying nursing at all levels. The updated dashboard contains metrics on state practice environment for nurse practitioners, and racial, ethnic and gender composition of nursing more

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