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Featured Posts:
Five Nurses Celebrated for Leadership and Innovation in Advancing Health Equity
Sep 10, 2024
AARP, National Nursing Orgs, Announce 2024 Equity-Minded Nurse Awardees Contact: Mary Boyle, mboyle@aarp.org Five outstanding nurses with very different specializations have been selected as recipients of the 2024 Equity-Minded Nurse Awards from the AARP Center more
Positive Ways to Use Technology in Nursing Research
Jul 17, 2024
How can nurses leverage the widespread use of technology across age, heritage, and economic status to engage more people and communities in research? The digital divide has significantly narrowed over the past decade. What was once thought of as more
AARP, AACN Critical Care, and RWJF Name Recipients of 2024 Health Equity and Nursing Innovations Fund Awards
Jul 09, 2024
Grants Will Fund Strengthening Nursing Workforce and Healthy Work Environments Contact: Mary Boyle, mboyle@aarp.org AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN Critical Care), and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of more
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NC FON AC and UNC’s TAPP Receive Award to Make Nurses Safer in the Workplace
Aug 15, 2024
North Carolina Future of Nursing Action Coalition (NC FON AC) and UNC’s Tar Heel Academic Practice Partnership (TAPP) together are one of 12 recipients nationwide to be awarded a $25,000 grant from the AARP Health Equity and Nursing Innovation Fund to create a simulation training program that can better address violence in healthcare settings. The grant, more
Location: North Carolina
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Equity in Practice as a Nurse Practitioner
Jun 26, 2024
The opposite of equity in practice is inequity in practice. Once I began to understand the ways that groups of my patients were affected by various rules, expectations, stereotypes and historically racist policies, I also began to see inequity in practice. Once more
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Four Health Equity Ambassadors Named to 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives List
Jun 18, 2024
On June 10, Modern Healthcare announced the “50 Most Influential Clinical Executives of 2024.” Among the honorees, four are members of the AARP Center for Health Equity through NursingSM (A-CHEN) Volunteer Ambassadors. Ambassadors are proven, influential nurse leaders committed to leveraging their roles to influence change in the systems in which more
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NC FON AC Members Contribute to North Carolina Institute of Medicine Task Force
Jun 10, 2024
North Carolina Future of Nursing Action Coalition (NC FON AC) members joined with other nurse leaders, researchers, advocates, and elected officials to serve on the North Carolina Institute of Medicine Task Force on the Future of the Nursing Workforce. NC FON AC Executive Committee Co-Chair Dr. Catherine Sevier was task force Co-Chair while Drs. Jill more
Location: North Carolina
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Susan Reinhard to Retire from AARP, Embrace New Roles
Jun 05, 2024
Photo of Susan Reinhard, PhD, RN, FAAN Dear colleagues: I am excited to share some personal news. After 17 years as senior vice president and director of the AARP Public Policy Institute (PPI) and chief strategist of the Center to Champion Nursing in America (CCNA), an more
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Webinar: Measuring the Value of Nurses on Boards: Findings from a New Survey
May 31, 2024
In 2023, the Mississippi Action Coalition and the Nurses on Boards Coalition conducted an inaugural survey to demonstrate the value of nurses serving on governing boards. Developed with a 2022 Health Equity Innovations Fund Award, this survey was the first comprehensive tool more
Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Mississippi
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Reckoning with the History of Nursing to Improve Maternal-Infant Health Outcomes
May 28, 2024
My health equity journey can be summed-up in the expression, “I am my sister’s (brother’s) keeper.” This phrase characterizes both the privileges and responsibilities that I hold, which are foundational to my leadership style and role as a nurse. As a Black woman, more
Location: Texas
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Patient-Family Advisory Council Opportunity for Nurses
May 22, 2024
Getty Image: Hospital administrator facilitates meeting AARP is filling roles on local Patient-Family Advisory Councils (PFACs). If you are an active or retired nurse who has also been a caregiver or patient and would like to make a difference for future patients and more
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