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FUTURE OF NURSING 2020-2030: NURSES SPEAK UP
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The Latest News
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Population Health in Nursing and the Response to COVID-19
Jul 02, 2020
Nurses across America are feeling challenged by the events of this year — most especially by the COVID-19 pandemic. But nurses also offer resources and solutions in these crises that no one else can. Working across the spectrum of care, our profession has perspective on more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education
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At Height of COVID-19, Nurses Reported High Levels of Distress
Jun 25, 2020
The largest study in the United States to document the psychological impact among nurses, advanced practice providers, defined in this study as nurse practitioners and physician assistants, physicians, residents and fellows working on the front lines at the height of the more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data
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‘Living Legend’ Addresses Health Disparities & Racial Injustice
Jun 17, 2020
“There’s no way you can extricate what’s been going on and the outcomes of the disease from the basic racism and social injustice and inequities that have existed in this country for so many years” Catherine Alicia Georges, EdD, RN, FAAN, tells Mike Ellison, a host of more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership
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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
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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