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Part 2 in A Series on Population Health in Nursing
Jul 10, 2020
On February 28, 2020, my colleagues and I concluded a major project on the future of population health and nursing (PHIN). The next day, the first official death from COVID-19 was recorded in the United States. Now, according to the Centers for Disease Control and more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities
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Compact States Welcome No. 34: Indiana
Jul 07, 2020
Thanks to a coalition of organizations that have coordinated efforts for years, Hoosiers and those in nearby states can now more readily find more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Indiana
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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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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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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
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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