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School: Where Health and Education Can Meet
Jul 27, 2016
A new paper from Brookings celebrates collaboration in the name of better health, and offers lessons for others trying to work together. School-based health centers, writes Olga more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National
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Read All About It: Culture of Health Success Stories
Jul 26, 2016
You know how grocery stores surround you with sweet temptations as you wait in line to pay? That idea has been turned on its sugary head in West Virginia, where select grocery stores offer healthy checkout lines that tempt customers with vegetables and granola bars, sunscreen and more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Mississippi National West Virginia
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Access to Care: Politico Puts It Under the Microscope
Jun 24, 2016
This month, leading thinkers and practitioners in health care have had public exchanges about many aspects of scope of practice laws, thanks to Politico, the online publication that focuses on politics and government. The issue has grown even more important, says Politico, as the more
Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National
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Leaders Are Made, Not Born: How to Become a Nurse Leader
Jun 23, 2016
“Just because I’m a clinical nurse doesn’t mean there isn’t leadership in my current job,” said Kristy Wheeler, BSN, RN, CNOR, CST, in a recent interview with Advance. The feature story takes a look at a conversation held during the Association of periOperative Registered more
Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National
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Nurses Serve Wisdom at Food Banks, Farmers Markets
Jun 22, 2016
A New York Times story about food banks—and diabetes—touches on a theme similar to one in the recently released video about interprofessional collaboration at health care facilities. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation video, which points out that all such efforts rest on a more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Location: Connecticut National Texas
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What Do Climate Change and Health Have to Do With Nursing?
Jun 09, 2016
The Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments organized the recent Climate and Health Roundtable at the White House. Lisa Campbell, DNP, RN, APHN-BC, attended to advocate for a Culture more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National Texas
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The Evidence Is In, and Posted: Experts’ Webinars Now Online
Jun 06, 2016
What has changed, exactly, in the wake of the 2010 report on the future of nursing? That’s what the more
Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National
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Pennsylvania Senate to Hear Bill to Ease Scope Restrictions; Research Backs It Up
May 27, 2016
Pennsylvanians are a step closer to being able to receive primary care with fewer hurdles, thanks to a bill that went to the state Senate earlier this month that would end the requirement that nurse practitioners maintain written contracts with physicians to practice and more
Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National Pennsylvania