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    Get on Board: Leap Into Leadership

    Feb 26, 2015

    Boards are better when nurses weigh in; their perspectives and experiences add distinctive viewpoints that improve the decisions that are made to achieve the goals of improved health, and efficient and effective health care systems at the local, state, and national levels. That’s why the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action encourages nurses to join more

    Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

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    Health Care Executives, Other Stakeholders Join Effort to Put Nurses on Governing Boards

    Feb 05, 2015

    The governing boards of most health-related organizations are like some bread recipes that don’t include yeast: they fail to rise to their full potential because they’re missing a key ingredient. The missing ingredient, in this case, is nurses. That is the view of a wide range of experts from sectors representing health care consumers, more

    Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

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    A New Future for Nursing Takes Shape

    Feb 05, 2015

    The new kind of nursing workforce envisioned by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in its groundbreaking 2010 report was on display at more

    Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

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    Champion of Nursing: Johnson & Johnson

    Feb 05, 2015

    In 1943, Robert Wood Johnson, the renowned former chair of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies, wrote a corporate Credo that opened with a statement that said the company’s “first responsibility” is to the people who use its products and services. That responsibility, he wrote, extends to nurses—a commitment to the profession that is more

    Location: National

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    President’s 2016 Budget Calls for Investments in Nursing, Removing Barriers to Full Practice

    Feb 03, 2015

    On Feb. 2, the Obama Administration released its 2016 fiscal budget, which contained some good news for consumers and nursing. If enacted by Congress, the budget would expand consumers’ access to care by increasing funds for training more advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), which is particularly important given the rising shortage of primary more

    Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National

  6. Wisconsin Nurse Leader Receives Humanitarian Award

    Jan 28, 2015

    Dr. Barbara Nichols, a Wisconsin nurse leader, a member of the Wisconsin Action Coalition and diversity coordinator for the SIP grant, Taking the LEAD for Nursing in Wisconsin: Leadership, Educational Advancement & Diversity, was recently honored as a recipient of the Martin Luther King, Jr Humanitarian Award. The ceremony was held January 19, 2015, more

    Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Wisconsin

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    The Campaign’s Top Accomplishments for 2014

    Dec 23, 2014

    1. Advancing Nursing Education The number of students enrolled in RN-to-BSN (bachelor of science in nursing) programs increased 57 percent from 2010 to 2014, according to preliminary data from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action is promoting four promising education models to help nurses obtain more

    Location: National

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    Nurse Leaders Bring Knowledge of Clinical Care and Other Skills to Board Rooms

    Dec 22, 2014

    Kristy Reuss, PhD, RN, a board member at a community hospital in Colorado, immediately thought of how patient care could be adversely affected if a proposal put forth by senior management to close the rapid response team was implemented. The first and only nurse on the 16-member board, Reuss explained to her colleagues how rapid response teams quickly bring more

    Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Colorado Idaho National Nebraska

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