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FUTURE OF NURSING 2020-2030: NURSES SPEAK UP
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The Latest News
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In Dark Times, NAM Study Sees a Bright Future for Nursing
May 11, 2021
Earlier today, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) released its eagerly awaited report, The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity. The report’s dedication to “nurses around the world who paid the ultimate price of caring for people more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Improving Health Equity Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education
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The National Academy of Medicine is About to Release a New Future of Nursing Report Here’s How It Was Made
May 03, 2021
Medical error, clinician burnout, unconscious bias — the National Academy of Medicine has taken on some of the health care system’s most serious and contentious issues through its unique consensus reports model. On May 11, my colleagues at NAM will release another more
Issues: Improving Health Equity
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Entrepreneurs with Heart: Tom Ahrens and Natasha Dickinson
Apr 16, 2021
Solving problems is in nurses’ DNA. When they implement a “workaround,” we call them 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 Improving Health Equity 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
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
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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