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Meeting of the Minds on Capitol Hill as Council and Coalition Discuss Progress

Oct 04, 2017

For a slideshow of the event, see below. For an audio recording of the event, see below:  “To be successful you must have focused intent. Did you hear me? Focused intent.” That was Barbara Nichols, MS, RN, FAAN, speaking of efforts to expand diversity in the more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National

Report: Nurses As Intermediaries Can Improve Community Health

Oct 03, 2017

Hospitals and health facilities are not always connected with the ways people live and behave in their day-to-day lives. A new paper that refers to the “siloed nature” of the health care system also suggests that nurses are, and can be even more, a solution to the more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

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End of Public Health Program Is Just the Beginning, Says Leader

Sep 26, 2017

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Public Health Nurse Leaders gathered in Atlanta September 5–7 for the completion of our two-year leadership program. I’d like to share some thoughts from our days together. This is a group of 25 senior public health nurse leaders, more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National

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“Averting Nursing Shortfall” Requires Policy Change, Says Dean

Sep 07, 2017

“America’s looming nurse shortage”: These are well-known words to those aware of health and health care today. In an opinion piece in The Hill, the dean of the School of Health Professions at New York Institute of Technology writes that lawmakers can act to keep the more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National

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Action Coalitions Report on Education Work in Autumn Issue

Sep 05, 2017

Nursing Education Perspectives, the journal of the National League for Nursing (NLN), shines a spotlight on Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action in its September/October issue. To mark the 10 years since the Institute of Medicine published its report on the future of nursing, more

Issues: Transforming Nursing Education Location: National

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Life-Saving Innovation Can Be as Simple as an Orange Vest

Aug 15, 2017

At a trauma unit in a Toronto hospital, it’s easy to see who’s in charge: the person wearing the orange vest. A recent column in the New York Times credits a nurse with coming up with this “simple yet effective innovation,” an idea inspired by the confusion among 20 more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National

Suicide Prevention Research Is Part of Her Service to Others

Aug 10, 2017

Erica Joseph, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC, NP-C is a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and family nurse practitioner with the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Healthcare System. She has worked as a nurse practitioner in the specialty area of psychiatry/mental more

Issues: Improving Access to Care

Campaign Allies Earn Achievement Awards

Aug 08, 2017

At its 45th Annual Institute and Conference August 3, the National Black Nurses Association (NBNA) honored nurses who have long honored the goals of the nursing profession. The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action is proud to be affiliated with three nurses who had awards more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Nevada