THE FUTURE OF NURSING
The National Academy of Medicine has released the Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity. Read the report, learn more about health equity and join the conversation.
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Handling Future Crises Requires Bold Action
May 28, 2021
When the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) began its Future of Nursing 2020-2030 study in 2019, disaster preparedness was not on the agenda, but the events of 2020 brought two realities into stark relief: Our institutions need to better prepare most nurses to deal with more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National
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Campaign’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisors on How Nurses Can Improve Health Equity
May 27, 2021
The nursing profession has enormous potential to help build a United States where all people have the opportunity to attain their full health potential, without social position or other socially determined circumstances standing in the way, which is how the Centers for more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Health Equity Increasing Diversity in Nursing Location: National
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Transforming nursing education to achieve health equity
May 18, 2021
Addressing patients’ unmet social needs has always been an aspect of the practice of nursing. But to meet today’s health equity challenges, nursing schools will need to embrace some bold new ideas and uncomfortable conversations. The new report from the National Academy more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Transforming Nursing Education Location: National
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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 Improving Health Equity Increasing Diversity in Nursing
Equity Toolkit Helps Communities Take On Social Determinants of Health
May 27, 2021
The Health Equity Toolkit (updated May 2021) 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 more
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Dashboard Indicators
Feb 22, 2021
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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