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Featured News Posts:
Handling Future Crises Requires Bold Action
May 28, 2021
When the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) began its Future of Nursing 2020-2030 study in 2019, disaster preparedness was not on the agenda, but the events of 2020 brought two realities into stark relief: Our institutions need to better prepare most nurses to deal more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National
Campaign’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisors on How Nurses Can Improve Health Equity
May 27, 2021
The nursing profession has enormous potential to help build a United States where all people have the opportunity to attain their full health potential, without social position or other socially determined circumstances standing in the way, which is how the Centers more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Health Equity Increasing Diversity in Nursing Location: National
Transforming nursing education to achieve health equity
May 18, 2021
Addressing patients’ unmet social needs has always been an aspect of the practice of nursing. But to meet today’s health equity challenges, nursing schools will need to embrace some bold new ideas and uncomfortable conversations. The new report from the National more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Transforming Nursing Education Location: National
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Nursing Podcast Series Building Vaccine Confidence
May 19, 2021
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses have played a critical role as frontline caregivers, leaders, and educators. As COVID-19 vaccines are developed, produced, distributed and communities vaccinated, vaccine confidence is critical. To build that confidence, more
Location: Pennsylvania
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Meet 3 South Carolina Nurses Who Disrupted Healthcare through the COVID-19
May 11, 2021
Kristi Alvey, APRN An educator at Columbia VA Health Care System in South Carolina, Kristie Alvey, APRN used her positive spirit and compassionate attitude to make a meaningful difference in a year when positivity was hard to come by. Kristie embraced the new challenge of cross-training bedside nurses for med-surg and ICU, while more
Location: South Carolina
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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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Improving the Nation’s Health Equity through a More Diverse Nursing Workforce
Apr 12, 2021
“Nursing…has a responsibility to society to prepare a health care workforce that is truly going to serve and be able to be truly take care of everyone in our growing diverse society. That is embedded in our ethical code.” – Sheldon Fields, PhD, RN, FAAN (March 30, more
Issues: Improving Health Equity
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New Co-Chair to Help Lead Campaign’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee
Apr 01, 2021
The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Steering Committee welcomes Scharmaine Lawson, DNP, FAANP, FAAN, as a new co-chair. Lawson is well prepared to help lead the committee’s efforts to build health equity through nursing and expand more
Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing
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Passing the Baton
Mar 16, 2021
Donna E. Shalala, PhD, and Mary K. Wakefield, PhD, RN, share a unique role in the history of nursing. Shalala led the study committee that produced the first future of nursing report in 2010, the Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. Wakefield and David R. more
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