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Thank you to our Equity-Minded Nurse Awards Co-sponsors
Nov 08, 2023
Equity-minded nurse awardees and sponsors with Campaign for Action leaders. On Wednesday, Oct. 31, the AARP Center for Health Equity through NursingSM (A-CHEN) and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood more
Five Nurses Celebrated for Leadership and Innovation in Advancing Health Equity
Oct 31, 2023
2023 Equity-Minded Nurse Awards PRESS RELASEContact: Mary Boyle, Campaign for Action communications director, mboyle@aarp.org A nurse educator in Maryland who centers health equity in classroom innovations and program implementation. A nurse practitioner more
Video: Nurses and Health Equity
Oct 05, 2023
https://youtu.be/T7Xbyqjbnwg The National Academy of Medicine’s Future of Nursing 2020—2023 report, published amid the COVID-19 pandemic, is subtitled, Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity. As the largest and most trusted segment of the health care more
Issues: Improving Health Equity
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Nursing Action Coalition of Florida presentation to the National Association of Nigerian Nurses in North America
Nov 26, 2023
Dr, Jan Adams, Co-Chair, NACFL participated in a panel discussion at the recent NANNNA meeting in Orlando. Dr. Adams shared the mission, vision and work that the Nursing Action Coalition of Florida is doing in the state to move toward health equity and meeting the more
Location: Florida
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AARP & Health Equity Nursing Summit 2023
Nov 26, 2023
Dr. Adams, Co-Chair, NACFL, attended the AARP & Health Equity Summit 2023 in Washington DC. Our Health Equity mentor, Dr. Barbara Nichols, and Dr. Adams shared Florida team updates while at the Summit 2023. more
Location: Florida
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Call for Abstracts Now Open!
2024 MDAC Virtual Leadership Summit:
Revolution vs. Rearrangement: How to Realistically Reimage Nursing Education and Practice
Monday, May 20, 2024
Visit UMSON MDAC Website for more information.Nov 07, 2023
2024 MDAC Virtual Leadership Summit https://www.nursing.umaryland.edu/academics/pe/events/mdac/ more
Location: Maryland
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October is Health Literacy Month Nationwide
Oct 23, 2023
Nationally, it is estimated that 9 out of 10 adults have difficulty understanding health information. Even individuals with advanced education (if they are not employed in field of health care) when faced with a new diagnosis and anxiety sets in, can feel overwhelmed and confused. When someone gets news that their chest x-ray is “positive”, what more
Location: Alabama
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Equity-Minded School Nurses Have a Superpower
Sep 13, 2023
School nurses are often unrecognized and poorly understood by non-health and health professionals, including other nurses. The unprecedented events surrounding COVID-19 and the return of students from home into the classroom elevated the importance of school nurses in more
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AARP’s Susan Reinhard Joins National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing
Aug 28, 2023
The National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing examines the issue of racism within nursing nationwide, focusing on the impact on nurses, patients, communities, and health care systems to motivate all nurses to confront individual and systemic racism. It was created in more
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Becoming an Equity-Minded Nurse Was Inevitable for Me
Aug 03, 2023
My story of being an equity-minded nurse began with my background. I was born to teenage parents along the Texas-Mexico border in a “colonia,” a Spanish term for poverty-stricken neighborhood. Nursing school to me was not only a way to play a pivotal role in shaping a more
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Preparing Teens and Young Adults for Health Care Careers
Jul 20, 2023
AARP and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, proudly support the Summer Health Institute for Nurse Exploration and Success or SHINES program. SHINES is helping create a stable and diverse more
Location: California
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