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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
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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
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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
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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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The Top Five Issues for Nursing in 2015
Dec 02, 2014
In 2013, the Institute of Medicine released a report, U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health, that compared the United States with 16 other affluent nations. The United States ranked last or near last on nine key indicators: infant mortality and low birth weight; injuries and homicides; teenage pregnancies and sexually more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National
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New Award Recognizes Nurses for Leading Changes in Health Care
Nov 17, 2014
The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action Announces Winners of the Breakthrough Leaders in Nursing Award Ten nurses who have made extraordinary efforts to improve the health and lives of people in their communities will be recognized as the recipients of the new Breakthrough Leaders in Nursing award created by the Future of Nursing: Campaign for more
Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National
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Arizona Nurse and Action Coalition Leader Named to New Infectious Disease Response Panel
Oct 28, 2014
Robin Schaeffer, co-leader of the Arizona Action Coalition and executive director of the Arizona Nurses Association, was appointed to Gov. Jan Brewer’s new Council on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response. Robin represents the Arizona Nurses Association on that Council, and is joined by representatives of 20 other organizations. Gov. Brewer more
Issues: Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National
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Champions of Nursing: Target
Oct 22, 2014
Back in 2006, retail giant Target tried something that was unusual at the time. Facing growing health care costs, a short supply of primary health care providers, and an aging population, America’s second largest general merchandise retailer opened a few health clinics in some of its stores and staffed them with nurse practitioners, who treat routine more
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