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    Five Nurses Celebrated for Leadership and Innovation in Advancing Health Equity

    Five outstanding nurses with very different specializations have been selected as recipients of the 2024 Equity-Minded Nurse Awards

    2024 Equity-Minded Nurse Awardees
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    2024 Health Equity and Nursing Innovations Fund Awards Named

    AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses , and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, have awarded nearly $275,000 to 12 projects offering promising solutions to strengthen and diversify the nursing workforce.

    2024 Nursing Innovations Fund
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    Patient-Family Advisory Council Opportunities for Nurses

    AARP is looking for active or retired nurses who can volunteer to serve on Patient-Family Advisory Councils and make a difference for patients, families, and caregivers.

    Patient Family Advisory Council

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  1. Five Nurses Celebrated for Leadership and Innovation in Advancing Health Equity

    Sep 10, 2024

    AARP, National Nursing Orgs, Announce 2024 Equity-Minded Nurse Awardees Contact: Mary Boyle, mboyle@aarp.org Five outstanding nurses with very different specializations have been selected as recipients of the 2024 Equity-Minded Nurse Awards from the AARP Center for Health more

  2. Positive Ways to Use Technology in Nursing Research

    Jul 17, 2024

    How can nurses leverage the widespread use of technology across age, heritage, and economic status to engage more people and communities in research? The digital divide has significantly narrowed over the past decade. What was once thought of as entertainment for more

  3. AARP, AACN Critical Care, and RWJF Name Recipients of 2024 Health Equity and Nursing Innovations Fund Awards

    Jul 09, 2024

    Grants Will Fund Strengthening Nursing Workforce and Healthy Work Environments Contact: Mary Boyle, mboyle@aarp.org AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN Critical Care), and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP more

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    Mar 06, 2024

    AARP Center for Health Equity through Nursing and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action have sharpened the dashboard to focus on improving access to care and diversifying nursing at all levels. The updated dashboard contains metrics on state practice environment for nurse practitioners, and racial, ethnic and gender composition of nursing more

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