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Update: More States Improved Patients’ Access to Nurses in 2021
Jan 19, 2022
Lifting restrictions on the care nurses can provide gives more Americans better access to high-quality, affordable health care when and where they need it, including in rural and other underserved areas of the country. The Nurse Practitioner Journal is just out with its more
Issues: Improving Access to Care
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Easing the Path to Nursing for First Generation Students
Jan 05, 2022
“Once first-gen, always first-gen.” Laura M. Wagner, PhD, RN, FAAN That sentiment says a lot about Laura M. Wagner, PhD, RN, FAAN, and the program she founded, FirstGenRN. The associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School more
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Our Top 10 Most-Read of 2021
Dec 21, 2021
Below are our 10 most-read blogs of the year. We thank you for visiting us in 2021 and hope you come back in 2022 for more stories about nurses leading in improving health equity and implementing recommendations from the National Academy of Medicine’s The Future of Nursing more
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Our primary and secondary dashboard indicators get updated twice per year and were last updated in September 2021.
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Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education
Dashboard Indicators
Sep 15, 2021
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, more
Location: National Tools & Tips: Dashboard Indicators Milestones
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Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education
Dashboard Secondary Indicators
Sep 15, 2021
Below are links to secondary indicator graphics that provide further support for each goal represented within the Dashboard. These are updated twice per year and were last updated in September 2021. Indicator 1: Education—Increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80 percent by 2020Number and percent of U.S.-educated, first-time more
Location: National Tools & Tips: Dashboard Indicators Milestones