Champions for Health Equity through Nursing pursue shared goals of improving consumer access to care, strengthening and diversifying the nursing workforce, promoting nurse leadership at all levels, and advancing health equity solutions.
Involvement includes:
- Co-creating and implementing initiatives to eliminate health disparities and advance health equity.
- Helping build the numbers, diversity, and effectiveness of the nursing workforce through policy changes, mentoring, and other strategies.
- Advancing public and institutional policy solutions that expand consumer access to health care and services, including helping nurses practice to the full extent of their education and training.
- Disseminating content, solutions and programs to key audiences
- Educating and activating key audiences on shared priorities.
- Connecting members and stakeholders with each other’s state-based entities such as state nursing associations, the Campaign’s state-based Action Coalitions, and AARP state offices.
- Participating in and promoting events that support the recommendations of the National Academy of Medicine’s Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity.
Is your organization interested in joining the Champions for Health Equity through Nursing?
Meet the Champions
- AARP
- Advancing States
- Aetna
- AFL-CIO
- AFSCME
- Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation
- Amazon
- American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing
- American Academy of Nursing
- American Academy of Physician Associates
- American Assisted Living Nurses Association
- American Association for Men in Nursing
- American Association of Colleges of Nursing
- American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
- American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology
- American Association of Nurse Practitioners
- American Association of Occupational Health Nurses
- American Association of People with Disabilities
- American Association of Post-Acute Care Nursing
- American Cancer Society
- American College of Nurse-Midwives
- American Federation of Teachers
- American Geriatrics Society
- American Health Care Association
- American Heart Association
- American Hospital Association
- American Nephrology Nurses Association
- American Nurses Association
- American Organization for Nursing Leadership
- American Psychiatric Nurses Association
- American Public Health Association
- American Red Cross
- America’s Essential Hospitals
- America’s Health Insurance Plans
- Asian American/Pacific Islander Nurses Association, Inc.
- Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
- Association of periOperative Registered Nurses
- Association of Public Health Nurses
- Best Buy
- Caregiver Action Network
- Catholic Health Association of the United States
- Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation
- CIGNA
- Convenient Care Association
- Disabled American Veterans
- DNPs of Color
- Easterseals
- Families USA
- Family Caregiver Alliance
- Feeding America
- Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association
- Gerontological Society of America
- GLMA Nursing Section
- Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
- Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
- Hospital Corporation of America
- Institute for Patient-and Family-Centered Care
- Johnson & Johnson
- Kaiser Permanente
- LeadingAge
- March of Dimes
- MinuteClinic, a Division of CVS Health
- Morgan Health
- National Alaska Native American Indian Nurses Association
- National Alliance for Caregiving
- National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions
- National Association for Home Care and Hospice
- National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
- National Association of Community Health Centers
- National Association of County and City Health Officials
- National Association of Hispanic Nurses
- National Association of School Nurses
- National Black Nurses Association
- National Business Group on Health
- National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs
- National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations
- National Council of State Boards of Nursing
- National Education Association
- National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers
- National Hispanic Medical Association
- National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
- National League for Nursing
- National Nurse-Led Care Consortium
- National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties
- National Organization of Nurses with Disabilities
- National PACE Association
- National Partnership for Women and Families
- National Rural Health Association
- National Student Nurses’ Association
- NurseTRUST
- Organization for Associate Degree Nursing
- Paralyzed Veterans of America
- Philippine Nurses Association of America, Inc.
- Sigma Theta Tau International
- Susan G. Komen
- Target
- The Leapfrog Group
- The Rippel Foundation
- UnitedHealth Group
- Verizon
- Walgreens