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Featured Posts:
Maps Illustrate a Decade of Progress in Nursing Education
Mar 22, 2023
From its earliest days, the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has worked to implement recommendations in the 2010 Institute of Medicine report, The Future of Nursing: Leading more
Video: Medicare Savings Programs Could Be Helping More Older Adults
Mar 15, 2023
A new AARP Policy Now video explores why 1.4 million eligible low-income Medicare beneficiaries are not enrolled in state level programs that can save them at least $1,900 a year in health care costs. Under Medicare Savings Programs (MSPs), state Medicaid agencies more
Valuing the Invaluable 2023 Update: Strengthening Supports for Family Caregivers
Mar 09, 2023
The AARP Public Policy Institute’s Valuing the Invaluable report offers a detailed portrait of who family caregivers are, the challenges they face, and the emotional and financial toll this unpaid work can take. It documents how they are also the backbone of our more
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Mentoring Nursing Students at HBCUs: An Update on Our Work
Feb 24, 2023
A top goal for the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is to help our country achieve health equity, and one important way is through a more diverse nursing workforce that reflects the more
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NC FONAC Hosts Retreat to Advance Health Equity in North Carolina
Feb 10, 2023
NC FONAC Members Discuss Future of Nursing Recommendations The North Carolina Future of Nursing Action Coalition (NC FONAC) marked their first in-person retreat and planning session since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, convening at the AARP North Carolina headquarters in more
Location: North Carolina
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Rising Star Nurse Leader Program Nomination
Feb 05, 2023
Once again, the Tennessee Nurses Association and Tennessee Hospital Association have partnered with the Tennessee Action Coalition to acknowledge emerging nurse leaders under 40. This program is developed to engage and empower younger nurses to lead the profession and improve the health of Tennesseans. Once selected, participants can engage in program more
Location: Tennessee
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Ten Things You Can Do to Support Nurses
Feb 02, 2023
Americans have identified nurses as the most trusted profession, in or out of health care, every year for the last two decades. But nurses across the country are exhausted, discouraged and leaving their roles or the profession in droves. It is time for a re-calibration. Read more
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Closing the Gap: How Nurses Can Promote Tax Credits to Improve Health Equity
Jan 31, 2023
Each year, an estimated $12 billion in federal tax credits go unclaimed because about 20 to 30 percent of people who are eligible for tax credits incorrectly fill out their tax forms, or do not file at all. We know disparities disproportionally impact people of color, more
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TAC Rising Star Selected for Health Equity Award
Jan 27, 2023
The Tennessee Action Coalition congratulates 2022 Rising Star Andrea Poynter, PhD, MSN, RN-CNE, on being selected as a co-recipient of an award from the Health Equity Innovations Fund! Dr. Poynter received the award in conjunction with Michael Whittaker and Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church. Their work will focus on creating a healthcare mentorship more
Location: Tennessee
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A Trauma-Informed Approach Provides Framework for Achieving Health Equity
Jan 25, 2023
We have known for years that health equity is possible only through eliminating racism, but we have yet to realize this imperative. The 2021 Future of Nursing Report1 and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action2 (an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood more
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Eight Native American Profiles and How to Use Them
Jan 19, 2023
Since 2021, I have worked with the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, as a diversity consultant and senior advisor on implementing recommendations of the National Academy of Medicine’s more
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