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Five Nurses Celebrated for Leadership and Innovation in Advancing Health Equity

Five outstanding nurses with very different specializations have been selected as recipients of the 2024 Equity-Minded Nurse Awards
2024 Equity-Minded Nurse Awardees
2024 Health Equity and Nursing Innovations Fund Awards Named

AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses , and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, have awarded nearly $275,000 to 12 projects offering promising solutions to strengthen and diversify the nursing workforce.
2024 Nursing Innovations Fund
Patient-Family Advisory Council Opportunities for Nurses

AARP is looking for active or retired nurses who can volunteer to serve on Patient-Family Advisory Councils and make a difference for patients, families, and caregivers.
Patient Family Advisory Council

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We’re Building Healthier Communities Through Nursing

America’s 4.4+ million registered nurses are key to improving health equity and creating communities in which everyone has access to high-quality care.

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A Maryland Health System Creates Opportunity Pathways for Its Workforce

Oct 08, 2024

Holy Cross Health is a not-for-profit health system in Maryland that serves the community through its hospitals, primary care sites, specialty care and wellness programs. It is also serving its own employees with a relatively new program to help them advance their careers more

Issues: Championing and Supporting LPNs and LVNs Location: Maryland
AARP Creates Financial Planning Videos for Nurses

Sep 27, 2024

AARP has made available, at no charge, three on-demand videos and resources to help nurses prepare for retirement. No matter when you plan to retire, or what type of retirement you see for yourself, you can start working toward a more secure financial future more
Share your RN Recruitment/Retention Strategies

Sep 18, 2024

Recruiting and retaining registered nurses is an urgent challenge. As part of AARP’s commitment to strengthening and diversifying the nursing workforce, the AARP Center for Health Equity through NursingSM (A-CHEN) is creating a digital toolkit that includes examples of more

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Action Coalitions in every state work with health, education, business, and other leaders to promote better health through nursing.

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Updated our goals in 2024

Our Dashboard

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