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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

  2. 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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    Join the Effort to Get 10,000 Nurses Onto Boards by 2020

    Dec 18, 2014

    In November, 2014, 21 national organizations came together to announce a new, nationwide effort to get 10,000 nurses onto boards of directors by 2020. Members of the “Nurses on Boards Coalition” include AARP, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and 19 national nursing organizations. These coalition members recognize that nurses are historically more

    Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

  6. National

    Bring in the Nurses, Stat

    Dec 18, 2014

    On December 18, the following op-ed by Sue Hassmiller and Susan Reinhard was published by the Tribune News Service. Some of the largest health care systems in America do not have any nurses serving on their boards of directors. That is a huge oversight, especially in a time of rapid change in health care delivery, when consumers and providers would more

    Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

  7. Report: Nursing Faculty Workforce Challenges in Massachusetts

    Dec 15, 2014

    Massachusetts higher education and health care leaders have been working on initiatives to advance and expand the nursing workforce, with the goal of raising the percentage of Registered Nurses with a BSN or higher from 55% to 66% by 2020. Achieving this goal is contingent upon many factors, such as classroom and laboratory facilities, clinical more

    Issues: Transforming Nursing Education Location: Massachusetts

  8. Mass. Health Care Employers Surveyed on Activities to Promote Advanced Education, Diversity in Nursing Workforce

    Dec 10, 2014

    According to a survey of Massachusetts health care employers, 90 percent of acute care hospitals have a formal goal to increase the proportion of nurses with bachelor’s degrees (BSN) in their workforce, but fewer than half require new hires or current nursing staff to achieve that level. The 2013 survey of Massachusetts health care employers — more

    Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing Transforming Nursing Education Location: Massachusetts

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