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We’re Building Healthier Communities Through Nursing
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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2020: Celebrating the Year of the Nurse and Midwife
Jan 22, 2020
Nurses make up the largest health care profession, not only in the United States but in the entire world. For this reason in part, the World Health Organization more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Promoting Nursing Leadership
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Hospital Bridges the Gap by Going Into the Community—Strategically
Jan 17, 2020
It is well known that nurses offer diagnoses, treatments, compassion, and care where they work and where they live. What is less known is that, increasingly, nurses are creating and participating in large-scale, systemic efforts to take on health equity by addressing needs before they become illnesses. more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Illinois
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Join a RWJF Leadership Program in 2020
Jan 14, 2020
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has long trained tomorrow’s leaders through its four leadership development programs: Clinical Scholars; Culture of Health Leaders; Health Policy Research Scholars; and Interdisciplinary Research Leaders. It is now accepting applications 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
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
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
Jul 09, 2019
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
Location: National Tools & Tips: Dashboard Indicators Milestones