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Handling Future Crises Requires Bold Action

May 28, 2021

When the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) began its Future of Nursing 2020-2030 study in 2019, disaster preparedness was not on the agenda, but the events of 2020 brought two realities into stark relief: Our institutions need to better prepare most nurses to deal with more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

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Campaign’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisors on How Nurses Can Improve Health Equity

May 27, 2021

The nursing profession has enormous potential to help build a United States where all people have the opportunity to attain their full health potential, without social position or other socially determined circumstances standing in the way, which is how the Centers for more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Health Equity Increasing Diversity in Nursing Location: National

Nursing Podcast Series Building Vaccine Confidence

May 19, 2021

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses have played a critical role as frontline caregivers, leaders, and educators. As COVID-19 vaccines are developed, produced, distributed and communities vaccinated, vaccine confidence is critical. To build that confidence, more

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Transforming nursing education to achieve health equity

May 18, 2021

Addressing patients’ unmet social needs has always been an aspect of the practice of nursing. But to meet today’s health equity challenges, nursing schools will need to embrace some bold new ideas and uncomfortable conversations. The new report from the National Academy more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Transforming Nursing Education Location: National

In Dark Times, NAM Study Sees a Bright Future for Nursing

May 11, 2021

Earlier today, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) released its eagerly awaited report, The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity. The report’s dedication to “nurses around the world who paid the ultimate price of caring for people more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Improving Health Equity Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education

The National Academy of Medicine is About to Release a New Future of Nursing Report Here’s How It Was Made

May 03, 2021

Medical error, clinician burnout, unconscious bias — the National Academy of Medicine has taken on some of the health care system’s most serious and contentious issues through its unique consensus reports model. On May 11, my colleagues at NAM will release another more

Issues: Improving Health Equity

Entrepreneurs with Heart: Tom Ahrens and Natasha Dickinson

Apr 16, 2021

Solving problems is in nurses’ DNA. When they implement a “workaround,” we call them more