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The Center to Champion Nursing in America provides assistance on a number of topics through events and teleconferences. Find archived events on diversity, data, leadership, scope of practice laws, education, and interprofessional collaboration, as well as on ways to run an effective Action Coalition.
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Featured News Posts:
A Heartfelt Thank You
Jan 14, 2021
First, a heartfelt thank you. Thank you for the contributions that we know you have made to your family, your community, the profession, and more, during a year of enormous challenges that include sickness in our ranks, burnout, grief, and worse. The pandemic has more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education
Forum Will Explore Ways to Advance Health Equity Through Nursing
Jan 04, 2021
Nurses are committed to advancing health equity but know they can’t achieve that goal on their own. One solution: inviting other health professionals and leaders from business, government, policy, consumer, and social justice organizations to join more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Increasing Diversity in Nursing
Our Most-Read Posts of 2020
Dec 23, 2020
As the Year of the Nurse and Midwife ends, we take time to look back on the Campaign’s most read stories of a tumultuous and dangerous year that nursing, and the rest of the world, will not soon forget. Most of the articles you’ll see below focus on the more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership
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Updates from the Tennessee Action Coalition
Jan 14, 2021
Member Remembers her Grandmother Lost to COVID-19 TAC member, Claire Marr , MSN, RN, CPN, AE-C, System Clinical Value Improvement Coordinator at Ballad Health remembers her amazing grandmother who died from COVID-19, and reminds us about the important messages nurses can offer during the pandemic: Nurses on Boards Coalition Please register more
Location: Tennessee
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Participate in a study on Grief Experiences
Jan 14, 2021
UTHSC nurse researchers are seeking RNs who want to share their stories of caring for COVID-19 patients. These nurses will be interviewed as part of a study on the Grief Experience of Nurses working on the Frontlines during the COVID19 Pandemic. Participation includes completing a brief survey and participating in a virtual focus group. To more
Location: Tennessee
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Nursing Organizations Among Leaders Urging Caution in Crisis Care
Dec 22, 2020
Four leading nursing organizations are among 10 major health care groups appealing to governors and state health care leaders to agree to crisis standards of care based on individual assessment, not categories including age and disability, when it comes to allocating more
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Community Support at the Tip of Your Fingers
Dec 17, 2020
Try as they might to be everything to everyone, and much as it might seem that they are, nurses and family caregivers cannot do it all. Especially now, as the pandemic surges and the holiday season approaches. This reality is made worse by today’s conundrum: While more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities
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Tennessee Justice Center and University of Tennessee College of Nursing present 2021 Healthcare Advocacy Series
Dec 16, 2020
Kick off 2021 with fresh advocacy skills! Build your advocacy knowledge, learn about the healthcare challenges across Tennessee, and participate in a media engagement workshop. This series is geared toward healthcare providers and those interested in tackling healthcare challenges across Tennessee. Advocacy 101 with Kinika Young, JD from the more
Location: Tennessee
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Pushed to the Brink: Campaign Nurse Talks to NPR
Dec 09, 2020
NPR’s “All Things Considered” recently featured Danielle Howa Pendergrass, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC, in an interview whose title says it all: “Rural Nurses on What It’s Like To Fight Pandemic Within a Smaller Health Care System.” Pendergrass, who has helped fill the gap more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Utah
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Article Details Campaign’s Innovative Mentoring Model
Dec 02, 2020
Since its beginning, a top goal of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action has been to build a nursing workforce that more closely reflects the nation’s more
Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing
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Public Health Nurse Supports College Athletes During COVID-19
Nov 24, 2020
There has never been a greater time than now to advocate for public health nursing, believes Jessica Beatriz Wagner, MPH, RN, associate director of prevention and health promotion at the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Sport Science Institute. That’s right, the more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities
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