Nursing Organizations Among Leaders Urging Caution in Crisis Care

Dec 22, 2020

Four leading nursing organizations are among 10 major health care groups appealing to governors and state health care leaders to agree to crisis standards of care based on individual assessment, not categories including age and disability, when it comes to allocating more

Community Support at the Tip of Your Fingers

Dec 17, 2020

Try as they might to be everything to everyone, and much as it might seem that they are, nurses and family caregivers cannot do it all. Especially now, as the pandemic surges and the holiday season approaches. This reality is made worse by today’s conundrum: While more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

Pushed to the Brink: Campaign Nurse Talks to NPR

Dec 09, 2020

NPR’s “All Things Considered” recently featured Danielle Howa Pendergrass, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC, in an interview whose title says it all: “Rural Nurses on What It’s Like To Fight Pandemic Within a Smaller Health Care System.” Pendergrass, who has helped fill the gap more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Utah

Article Details Campaign’s Innovative Mentoring Model

Dec 02, 2020

Since its beginning, a top goal of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action has been to build a nursing workforce that more closely reflects the nation’s more

Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing

Public Health Nurse Supports College Athletes During COVID-19

Nov 24, 2020

There has never been a greater time than now to advocate for public health nursing, believes Jessica Beatriz Wagner, MPH, RN, associate director of prevention and health promotion at the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Sport Science Institute. That’s right, the more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

Modernization of California Nurse Practitioner Practice is Overdue: Implications for Nurse-Led Clinics

Nov 18, 2020

The Need The need for the expansion and growth of nurse-led clinics, to deliver primary and behavioral health services, is well supported by health data from national, state, and local sources. These data document the extent of primary care physician shortages in underserved more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Location: California

The Eastern Plains Healthcare Consortium (EPHC)

Nov 15, 2020

The Eastern Plains Healthcare Consortium (EPHC) is a recipient of a HRSA l Rural Health Network Development Planning Program. (RHND) The purpose of this program is to promote the planning and development of integrated rural health care networks to: (i) achieve efficiencies; (ii) more

Location: Colorado