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America’s 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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Rehired: Emeritus Nurses Bring Knowledge and Experience to Younger Workforce
Feb 19, 2020
Health care has a problem: a nursing workforce shortage that has loomed over the profession for more than a more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership
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Youth Suicide: How a Nurse-Designed Intervention May Be Saving Lives
Feb 11, 2020
A nurse-designed mental health intervention can improve the well-being of America’s youth. It may even save lives. Creating Opportunities for Personal Empowerment (COPE) gets cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) training to children, teens, and young adults in community, more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership
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Newly Updated Campaign Dashboard Shows Progress in Education, Diversity
Feb 05, 2020
Since 2010, The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action has tracked progress made as we continue to implement recommendations made by the Institute of Medicine’s 2010 future of nursing report,Leading Change, Advancing Health. New data are in, and the latest update to our more
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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
Nov 20, 2019
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
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Dashboard Indicators
Jan 29, 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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