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    Building Momentum Nationwide To Get Nurses on Boards

    Oct 22, 2014

    At more than 3 million strong, nurses make up the largest segment of the U.S. health care workforce, but relatively few nurses serve on hospital and health system governing boards of directors. A 2011 American Hospital Association survey of U.S. hospitals found that nurses accounted for only 6 percent of hospital board members, and anecdotal evidence more

    Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

  2. National

    Nurses Are Key to Meeting America’s Health Care Needs

    Oct 06, 2014

    Susan Reinhard, PhD, RN, FAAN, is senior vice president and director of the AARP Public Policy Institute and chief strategist at the Center to Champion Nursing in America, which coordinates the Future of Nursing:Campaign for Action. In this post, she reflects on the fourth anniversary of the Institute of Medicine’s landmark report, The Future of Nursing: more

    Issues: Improving Access to Care Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

  3. First Nurse Ever Appointed to the Board of Trustees of Baystate Health

    Aug 19, 2014

    Kathleen Scoble, ED, RN, dean of the Elms College School of Nursing, has been named to the Board of Trustees of Baystate Health, a western Massachusetts-based non-profit health care provider. She is the first nurse ever appointed to the board. Baystate Health is one of the largest health systems in New England. “Nurses are the largest part of our more

    Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Massachusetts

  4. National

    Walmart Enters Primary Care Role With Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics

    Aug 19, 2014

    Across the nation, nurse practitioners (NPs) are providing care by meeting consumers where they are: retail stores. Champion Nursing Coalition members CVS MinuteClinic, Target, and Walgreens’ Healthcare Clinic Systems are providing convenient, high quality care by supplying NPs where and when consumers need them. This often means weekends and after more

    Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National South Carolina Texas

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    AARP The Magazine: Nurse Practitioners Fill the Gap

    Aug 05, 2014

    The August/September 2014 issue of AARP The Magazine features an article on nurse practitioners filling a void when access to health professionals is limited. The article,Nurse Practitioners Fill the Gap, makes the case for nurse practitioners to do the work they’ve been trained to do. The article shares the story of nurse practitioner Danielle more

    Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National Utah

  6. The Road to Nurse Leadership

    Jul 25, 2014

    Childhood friends of Mary Anne Marra, DNP, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, Chief Nursing Officer at East Orange General Hospital in northern New Jersey, would not be surprised to learn that she is among an an elite group of nurses in the nation who serve on healthcare governing boards. A 2013 study by the Journal of Urban Health, Representation of Health Professionals on more

  7. National

    Transforming Nursing Education

    Jul 16, 2014

    More highly educated nursing workforce needed to provide more complex patient care, experts say. Many registered nurses (RNs) start—and finish—their post-secondary education with an associate degree in nursing (ADN). But health care experts want more nurses to see the ADN as a first step on a career-long educational journey. “Our goal is to improve more

    Issues: Transforming Nursing Education Location: National New York Texas Wyoming

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    In the States: Making BSN Education Accessible to Minnesotans in Their Home Communities

    Jul 16, 2014

    In Minnesota, hundreds of rural nursing students will soon have a more streamlined pathway to the baccalaureate degree thanks to the persistence and foresight of nursing leaders in the state. This past year, 1,500 residents applied to a new dual-admission bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) program, a collaboration between seven community colleges and more

    Issues: Transforming Nursing Education Location: Minnesota National

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