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If You Had a Say in Your Nursing Schedule…
Jun 22, 2017
If nurses could be more involved in the creation of their work schedules, would you ultimately have a more engaged, satisfied, and alert nursing workforce? That’s a question posed by McKnight’s Long-Term Care News in a story headlined “Is Nurse Fatigue Leading to more
Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National
Proud Family History–and Impulse–Led Him to Nursing
Jun 13, 2017
This is the fourth 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. Jake Creviston, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC, maintains a practice at an more
Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National
Five Reasons Our Video Series Can Support Family Caregivers — and the Nurses Who Work With Them
Jun 08, 2017
Since AARP started partnering with the Department of Veterans Affairs beginning last year to produce a series of 10 videos (five in English, five in Spanish) through the Home Alone Alliance, which I first wrote about here, we’ve only gotten more excited about the more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership
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Academia, Industry, Organizations Together Can Strengthen Diversity
Jun 28, 2017
Mentoring is important for everyone, but needs are as distinctive as people are. The Campaign for Action Diversity Steering Committee welcomed the head of the National Black Nurses Association to lead a webinar June 26 about the needs of black student nurses. During “Mentoring Minority Nurses and Student Nurses: A Pillar for Successful Leadership,” NBNA more
Issues: Increasing Diversity
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LPN to BSN Pathway Study
Jun 27, 2017
North Carolina expands nursing workforce development efforts through an LPN to BSN pathway feasibility study and finds NC poised to move forward. Read the full report: NC Expands Academic Progression with LPN-BSN Initiative more
Location: North Carolina
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Welcome to Boise
Jun 23, 2017
Welcome to Boise, Idaho, and to Boise State University, for one of three Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action 2017 workshops focusing on continued work to implement the Institute of Medicine recommendations, and to build a Culture of Health in communities across the nation. The more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: Idaho
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Welcome to Wisconsin
Jun 08, 2017
We are excited to welcome you to Madison, Wisconsin on June 14-15, as the Wisconsin Action Coalition co-hosts the second of three Building on the Campaign for Action Pillars to Create a Healthier America meetings. The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is our co-host. A more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Wisconsin
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The Mentoring Door Goes Both Ways—Open It
May 25, 2017
Danielle Howa Pendergrass, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC, gets reflective this time of year as graduation ceremonies bloom on college lawns across the country. Reflective, and glad: As she celebrates tomorrow’s nurses, Pendergrass says, what comes to mind especially is the importance of more
Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National
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Nurse-Led Models of Care Succeed; Case Studies Count the Ways
May 22, 2017
Nurses will show the way to a Culture of Health: In fact, they already have, as three case studies suggest. A brief whose authors include two Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action allies reports on efforts to understand the role health care providers can play in creating a more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National
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"Most Proud When I Pay It Forward," Says Nurse Leader
May 17, 2017
This is the third 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. Maria Torchia LoGrippo, PhD, MSN, RN, is assistant professor at Rutgers more
Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: New Jersey
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New RWJF Chief Talks of Commitment to Service
May 16, 2017
Richard Besser, MD, who recently became president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, talks in a Q&A about his work as a pediatrician, the importance of helping the public understand issues by telling people’s stories, and his thoughts on a Culture of Health. more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National
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