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“I Knew I Wanted to Be ‘That Nurse'”

Apr 05, 2017

This is the second 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.  Danielle Howa Pendergrass, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC, is a board-certified more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National Utah

2017 County Rankings Let Residents Measure Health

Mar 29, 2017

Every year, each county in the country has its pulse taken. How healthy are the residents—are they working, are they safe, do they smoke, what are the education rates? What is the quality of the air they breathe and water they drink, and how easily can they get around without a more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

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Complex Care Model Leads to Answers for America’s Vulnerable

Mar 23, 2017

Lauran Hardin’s calling became clear as she listened to a 30-year-old man read his essay, “Why I Went to the Emergency Room.” He was in the presence of 20 people from three hospital systems and many community agencies who, separately, had responded to his health care more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Location: National

She Found Her Path in Shiprock, New Mexico

Mar 21, 2017

This is the first 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.  AnnMarie Lee Walton, PhD, MPH, RN, OCN, CHES, is a postdoctoral fellow in more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership

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Nurses "Expand Depth of Knowledge," Reinhard Writes in Trustee Magazine

Mar 15, 2017

Susan Reinhard, RN, PhD, FAAN, is chief strategist for the Center to Champion Nursing in America, senior vice president and director of AARP’s Public Policy Institute, and serves on seven boards. She is also a registered nurse. For all those reasons, Trustee magazine recently more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

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Charting Nursing’s Future Offers Big Picture on How Laws Affect the Public

Mar 13, 2017

Rely as Americans may on nurses—and with 3.6 million registered nurses in this country, we do—most do not know a lot about nurses, including the fact that some 350,000 are engaged in advanced practice. That’s only one reason the latest issue of Charting Nursing’s more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National

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Reinhard, ANA President Consider Altered Health Care System

Mar 09, 2017

Susan Reinhard, PhD, RN, FAAN, the senior vice president and director of the AARP Public Policy Institute and chief strategist of the  Center to Champion Nursing in America, was one of “two very policy-smart nurses” interviewed about possible changes coming to America’s health more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National

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2017 Culture of Health Sessions to Be Tailored to Action Coalitions

Mar 07, 2017

“Building on the Campaign for Action Pillars to Create a Healthier America” is the name, and the aim, of regional meetings to be held in 2017 for Action Coalitions. Similar to last summer’s meetings, these workshops reflect the new needs and growth of Action Coalitions more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National