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We’re Building Healthier Communities Through Nursing
America’s 3.6 million registered nurses are key to promoting health and creating communities in which everyone has access to high-quality care.
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AARP, National Black Nurses Association Team Up to Promote Brain Health
Jul 18, 2018
AARP is proud to team with the National Black Nurses Association (NBNA) in an innovative pilot project to educate consumers about how they can maintain and improve their brain health as they get older. Brain health is defined as “making the most of your brain and helping reduce more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National Virginia
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Nursing Professor Aims to Improve Lives of Teens, Young Adults with Mood Disorders
Jul 13, 2018
This is the 13th in a series of profiles of Campaign leaders talking about their connections to the nursing or health care profession and their interests in healthier communities. Melissa Pinto, PhD, RN, FAAN, is associate professor of nursing at the University of more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: California National
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Nurse Practitioners Help Keep the Roads Safe—Why Not the Rails and Skies?
Jul 02, 2018
Nurse anesthetist Steven Wooden, DNP, CRNA, NSPM, relies on his private plane and pilot’s license to effectively provide anesthesia services in rural Nebraska. He’s logged more than 40,000 flight miles while providing anesthesia coverage to at least nine hospitals, some as far as 200 miles from his home. more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National
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Improving Access to Care: What You Need to Know
Nov 04, 2016
The Campaign for Action works to bring better care and wellness to more Americans by changing laws and policies that prohibit nurses from practicing to the full extent of their education and training. Below are facts you can use to educate others about our efforts. The four types of advanced practice registered nurses: nurse practitioners clinical more
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Building Healthier Communities Transforming Nursing Education
Education Ideas Emerge From Learning Collaboratives
Mar 23, 2017
Agreements between nursing schools and population health initiatives; academic programs that include community-based care; reports that show the value of teaching student nurses the many variables that affect people’s health. These are among materials educators and nurses have mentioned as they discuss how to integrate a Culture of Health perspective into more
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Workforce Data: A Plan to Measure Progress
Nov 17, 2016
Nurses play a huge role in keeping Americans healthy, but for nursing to be able meet the country’s growing health needs, we need more facts about the nursing workforce. In 2010, the Institute of Medicine future of nursing report spelled out this demand for data. In its follow-up report five years later, the call was more urgent: “The Campaign should play a more