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The Latest News
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ANA, Rita Wilson Partner to Promote Importance of Flu Shot
Sep 21, 2020
The American Nurses Association is teaming with actress Rita Wilson to urge 200 million Americans to get their flu shots — soon. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), getting the annual flu vaccine is more important than ever. That’s why more
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Strategies to Cultivate Positive Emotions May Prove Useful to Nurses
Sep 17, 2020
Science has long said that smiling – even when you don’t feel like it — can trick your brain into feeling happy. A new study by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) underscores that premise and offers strategies for nurses and other health care more
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A Season of Contact Tracing Highlights School Nurses’ Influence Beyond School Walls
Sep 10, 2020
Before 2020, Eileen Gavin, MSN, FNP-BC, NCSN, who co-leads a more
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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
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Dashboard Indicators
Sep 22, 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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