Campaign Names Winners of 2021 Nursing Innovations Fund Award

Oct 07, 2021

The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), has announced that six nurse-led projects will receive Nursing Innovations Fund awards of up to $25,000 each. The projects submitted by the more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Health Equity Location: Delaware Kentucky Montana Pennsylvania Utah West Virginia

Nurse Wins $50K AARP Purpose Prize for Helping African Immigrants with Breast Cancer

Oct 06, 2021

AARP’s Purpose Prize is awarded annually to people 50-plus who have used their knowledge and life experience to solve challenging social problems. Among this year’s five winners is Ify Anne Nwabukwu, BSN, RN, a nurse who founded the African Women’s Cancer Awareness more

Quinn to Become Honorary American Academy of Nursing Fellow

Oct 05, 2021

Each year, the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) choses a select group of people from outside the nursing profession to become honorary fellows. This year, AAN will honor Winifred V. Quinn, PhD, FAANP(h), director of advocacy and consumer affairs for the Center to Champion more

The Future of Nursing West Virginia, Creating Jobs, Improving Health

Sep 29, 2021

The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action creates a space where nurses and nursing organizations can partner with consumers, business leaders, educators and others in the community to drive change, with its state-based coalitions on the leading edge of that change. And when more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Health Equity Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: West Virginia

In D.C. and Across the Nation, Nursing Provides a Path to Economic Well-Being

Sep 22, 2021

There are so many reasons to choose a nursing career. Nurses work in a wide range of roles and in almost every setting imaginable. They provide care, advance rehabilitation and cure, provide emotional support, advocate for health promotion, and educate patients, families, more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Increasing Diversity in Nursing Transforming Nursing Education

Nurse Vaccine Hesitancy Isn’t Surprising

Sep 16, 2021

As we find ourselves in the midst of another COVID-19 surge with hospitals once again reaching capacity, there has been much discussion about COVID-19 vaccination and whether this had become a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” What might surprise some is the rate of vaccine more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

The Most Salient Issue of our Time

Sep 15, 2021

The Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence is pleased to share this information from the Colorado Organization of Nurse Leaders (CONL) for their annual fall conference! This three-day virtual event will be held Tuesday evenings from 4:30 pm  – 6:00 pm MST.   SHIFTING AND more

Issues: Improving Health Equity Increasing Diversity in Nursing Transforming Nursing Education Location: Colorado

She’s Out To Fix the ‘Say-Do’ Ratio In Nursing

Sep 08, 2021

G. Rumay Alexander, EdD, RN, FAAN, knows how to navigate. She has been doing it her whole life, and bringing people along as she goes. She has already started doing the same as the scholar-in-residence at the American Nurses Association (ANA) supporting ongoing work on more

Issues: Improving Health Equity