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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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The Importance of Diversity in Nursing
Dec 03, 2019
Nurses are essential to meeting the growing demand on healthcare in the United States. But according to an Institute of Medicine report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Health, Advancing Change, the healthcare system needs a “greater emphasis” on increasing diversity of more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Increasing Diversity in Nursing
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Industry Leaders Offer a Glimpse into the Future of Nursing
Nov 25, 2019
Priya Bathija and Robyn Begley were among the industry leaders who presented last week at a National Academy Medicine panel on the Future of Nursing 2020-2030. Photo courtesy of the American Hospital more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities
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AARP, RWJF Leaders Write About Combined Histories, Successes
Nov 22, 2019
When the nation’s largest philanthropy devoted to improving health and health care connected with the nation’s largest consumer membership organization, good things were bound more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education
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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