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2024 MDAC Virtual Leadership Summit:
Revolution vs. Rearrangement: How to Realistically Reimage Nursing Education and Practice
Monday, May 20, 2024

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Nov 07, 2023

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Five Nurses Celebrated for Leadership and Innovation in Advancing Health Equity

Oct 31, 2023

2023 Equity-Minded Nurse Awards PRESS RELASEContact: Mary Boyle, Campaign for Action communications director, mboyle@aarp.org A nurse educator in Maryland who centers health equity in classroom innovations and program implementation. A nurse practitioner in more

October is Health Literacy Month Nationwide

Oct 23, 2023

Nationally, it is estimated that 9 out of 10 adults have difficulty understanding health information. Even individuals with advanced education (if they are not employed in field of health care) when faced with a new diagnosis and anxiety sets in, can feel overwhelmed and confused. When someone gets news that their chest x-ray is “positive”, what more

Location: Alabama

Video: Nurses and Health Equity

Oct 05, 2023

https://youtu.be/T7Xbyqjbnwg The National Academy of Medicine’s Future of Nursing 2020—2023 report, published amid the COVID-19 pandemic, is subtitled, Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity. As the largest and most trusted segment of the health care workforce, nurses more

Issues: Improving Health Equity

Equity-Minded School Nurses Have a Superpower

Sep 13, 2023

School nurses are often unrecognized and poorly understood by non-health and health professionals, including other nurses. The unprecedented events surrounding COVID-19 and the return of students from home into the classroom elevated the importance of school nurses in more

AARP’s Susan Reinhard Joins National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing

Aug 28, 2023

The National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing examines the issue of racism within nursing nationwide, focusing on the impact on nurses, patients, communities, and health care systems to motivate all nurses to confront individual and systemic racism. It was created in more

Becoming an Equity-Minded Nurse Was Inevitable for Me

Aug 03, 2023

My story of being an equity-minded nurse began with my background. I was born to teenage parents along the Texas-Mexico border in a “colonia,” a Spanish term for poverty-stricken neighborhood. Nursing school to me was not only a way to play a pivotal role in shaping a more

Preparing Teens and Young Adults for Health Care Careers

Jul 20, 2023

AARP and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, proudly support the Summer Health Institute for Nurse Exploration and Success or SHINES program. SHINES is helping create a stable and diverse more

Location: California

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