New Campaign Video Celebrates Success, Highlights Potential

Nov 27, 2017

The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action has a new video out about its work. In less than five minutes, you can learn how changes in nursing have improved health and health care, the role the Campaign—and you—have had, and what more there is to do. Spoiler more

She Raised Her Hand in Class, and the Rest Was Nursing History

Nov 21, 2017

This is the ninth in a series of profiles of leaders who are part of the Campaign talking about their connections to the nursing or health care profession and their interests in healthier communities. Leanne L. Lefler, PhD, ACNS-BC, APRN, FAHA, is an associate professor at the more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Arkansas

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New Videos Guide Caregivers As They Help Family at Home

Nov 16, 2017

“It’s a little scary dealing with wounds like this,” confesses a wife whose husband is being discharged from the hospital. It’s on camera, and she’s talking to nurses as they carefully walk her through the steps she and her husband will need to follow to care for more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

Men: Look to Nursing for Growth, Urges New Organization Head

Oct 30, 2017

Nursing remains one of the most essential careers in our health care system and the workforce should reflect the nation’s population. When it comes to gender, it does not, but it should, as Blake Smith, MSN, RN, incoming president of the American Association of Men in Nursing, more

Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing

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Defining Hope Is Filmmaker's Latest Take on Nurses

Oct 25, 2017

The will to live is powerful, and nurses more than anyone see the hard philosophical and physical choices that most people must make when they reach the intersection of life and death. Defining Hope from filmmaker and documentary photographer Carolyn Jones shows some of more

Location: National

Clinical Experience With School Nurse Was Her Wake-Up Call

Oct 18, 2017

This is the eighth in a series of profiles of leaders who are part of the Campaign talking about their connections to the nursing or health care profession and their interests in healthier communities. Andrea Tanner, MSN, RN, NCSN, is coordinator of health services and a school more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Indiana

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Paper Lays Out Ways in Which All Nurses Affect Population’s Health

Oct 11, 2017

How can nurses best help reverse course on the nation’s declining health and promote the health of the U.S. population? That question is addressed in a white paper commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and released last month. The paper, “Catalysts for more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National

NBC Names Campaign Strategic Adviser as Top Latino 20

Oct 05, 2017

NBC News honors excellence each year with its #NBCLatino20, praising achievers who are making America’s communities better. This year, national recognition goes to Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and co-chair of more