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  1. Advancing Nursing Education, Advancing Health: New video encourages registered nurses to earn a BSN to better respond to a changing health care system

    Jan 29, 2016

    Nursing skills at the baccalaureate level are in high demand. A new video from the Washington Center for Nursing, “Advancing Nursing Education, Advancing Health,” shows why earning a BSN is key for nurses to help transform the health care system, and why investing in a higher degree is a smart career decision. In the video, nurses will hear the employer more

    Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: Washington

  2. Louisiana Action Coalition releases diversity report

    Jan 25, 2016

    A new report details the current demographic makeup of Louisiana’s nursing workforce, challenges faced in increasing minority representation and actions that can be taken to recruit and retain minorities. Embracing the Challenge: Enhancing Diversity in Louisiana’s Nursing Workforce and an accompanying infographic were developed using data gathered more

    Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing Location: Louisiana

  3. National

    VA Submits Proposed Regulation Allowing Full Practice Authority

    Jan 19, 2016

    Now under consideration: a proposal to allow advanced practice registered nurses full practice authority in Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities. This is an important step in a process that has been underway for at least two years, and you can weigh in. On January 8, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs submitted the draft regulation for a more

    Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National

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    CVS Health Partners With Two Leading Multicultural Nursing Associations

    Jan 19, 2016

    CVS Health announced plans to partner with the National Black Nurses Association and the National Association of Hispanic Nurses—two organizations whose missions are to improve the quality of health care for more Americans by increasing the number of nurses with ethnically diverse backgrounds. As part of its collaboration, CVS Health will establish more

    Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing Location: National

  5. Wisconsin Creates Organization Recognition Program for Health Systems

    Jan 15, 2016

    Organizations that Lead by Example to Advance Degrees (LEAD) are being recognized for these efforts in a unique program underway in Wisconsin. The LEAD recognition program was launched by the Wisconsin Center for Nursing (WCN), co-lead for the Action Coalition. It is designed to recognize organizations who are paving the way to advance levels of nursing more

    Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Wisconsin

  6. National

    Study: When Nurse Practitioners Provide Primary Care, Medicare Costs Are Lower

    Jan 11, 2016

    In a finding that contradicts previous data, the cost to Medicare is lower when nurse practitioners rather than physicians provide primary care, says a new study. Researchers from Mathematica Policy Research, Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management, and Montana State University who studied national data over a 12-month more

    Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National

  7. National

    Huge Interest in IOM’s Future of Nursing Report Shows in Record Number of Downloads

    Jan 05, 2016

    Reflecting the fact that nurses play a critical role in improving America’s health and health care system, the Institute of Medicine’s Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report remains the IOM’s most downloaded report since its release in 2010. As of December 2015, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) records 129,874 downloads of Future more

    Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National

  8. National

    Post-Summit Campaign Update With Q&A

    Nov 17, 2015

    Dear Action Coalition members and Campaign friends: Thank you to those of you who spent several days last week to travel to Washington, D.C., to attend the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action Summit 2015. It was an invigorating meeting at which we began discussing the Institute of Medicine’s updated recommendations to accelerate progress, and more

    Location: National

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