Beyond GPA: Holistic Admissions Can Help Build a More Diverse Nursing Workforce

Jun 23, 2022

A diverse nursing workforce is essential to achieving health equity in the United States. Holistic admissions practices are an important tool nursing schools can use to contribute to that goal. But changing admissions systems is complex, and a successful transformation more

Location: Indiana

To Achieve Health Equity, Build a “Coalition of Coalitions”

Jun 16, 2022

Nurses’ efforts to achieve health equity are always stronger when they form partnerships with the community being served. That’s why matching funding and local partnerships were a requirement for every project supported by the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action’s more

Location: North Carolina

Nichols Inducted into ANA’s Hall of Fame

Jun 13, 2022

From left to right: Adriana Perez, Barbara Nichols, Jazmine Cooper, and Scott Tanaka. For her visionary leadership and political acumen as well as her altruism, Barbara Nichols, MSN, RN, FAAN, was one of two nurses inducted into the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) more

Nursing Innovations Funds Stimulate a Network of Partnerships for Health Equity

Jun 06, 2022

When nurses are empowered to create health equity in their communities, they bring together a network like nobody else can. The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has demonstrated this more

Issues: Improving Health Equity Location: Georgia Indiana Kentucky Massachusetts Nebraska North Carolina Pennsylvania Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

Two Nurse Leaders Elected to RWJF Board of Trustees

May 27, 2022

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the nation’s largest philanthropy dedicated to improving health and health equity, has elected two nurse leaders to its Board of Trustees to provide vital leadership in the Foundation’s pursuit of a Culture of Health; one has ties more

Nurses Are Reimagining Health Care

May 24, 2022

After more than two years of dealing with a devastating pandemic, the news is full of headlines showing exhausted, frustrated nurses who are ready for change. What the headlines miss is that nurses are eager to lead that change. When the American Nurses Foundation’s more