Health Equity Action Forums
Join us as we host a series of virtual convenings with the goal of engaging a range of stakeholders, including consumer, business and health care organizations, on improving our nation’s health equity through a more diverse nursing work force.
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The Latest News
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Push for New Nurses Seeks to Reduce Wealth & Health Disparities
Jan 26, 2021
While the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action has from its start sought to increase diversity in the nursing workforce and continues to emphasize inclusivity, it will introduce a new aspect of its efforts to improve America’s health on Feb. 3. That’s when the Campaign more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Increasing Diversity in Nursing
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How to put people first in the new year
Jan 25, 2021
If 2020 was a calamity, 2021 has the makings of a year of hope. The most visible signs of that hope are the vaccines currently being received by nurses, physicians, and other frontline workers across the country. For our overtaxed care providers, this is a much-needed more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities
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Co-chairs Bring Complementary Strengths to Equity Initiative
Jan 19, 2021
From opposite sides of the country, Carmen Alvarez, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, and Eric J. Williams, DNP, RN, FAAN, bring more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Increasing Diversity in Nursing
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Latest Resources
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Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data Increasing Diversity in Nursing
A literature scan and framework of a diverse nursing workforce and its effect on the social determinants of health
Nov 21, 2019
This paper reviews vulnerable populations in the U.S. and suggest policies and practices that address the social determinants of health that particularly affect them. It also surveys the research that nurses are conducting currently (as of 2019) that is focused on the social determinants of health, and illustrates, using a framework produced by Health more
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Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data Increasing Diversity in Nursing
Equity Toolkit Helps Communities Take On Social Determinants of Health
Apr 13, 2020
The newly developed Health Equity Toolkit provides in one place the tools, resources, and information that nurses, as well as Action Coalitions and their partners, need to help their communities by tackling the social determinants of health—those conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, including social and economic factors that have more
Tools & Tips: Mentoring
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Dashboard Indicators
Sep 22, 2020
The Campaign for Action Dashboard is a series of graphs and charts the Campaign uses to evaluate its efforts to implement the recommendations in the Institute of Medicine’s The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report. It contains seven primary indicators: education, doctoral degrees, state practice environment, interprofessional more
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