Strategies to Cultivate Positive Emotions May Prove Useful to Nurses

Sep 17, 2020

Science has long said that smiling – even when you don’t feel like it — can trick your brain into feeling happy. A new study by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) underscores that premise and offers strategies for nurses and other health care more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

the American Academy of Nursing – 2020 Class Fellows

Sep 12, 2020

The Tennessee Action Coalition congratulates the three Tennessee Nurses selected as the American Academy of Nursing 2020 Class Fellows: Dr. Belinda Mandrell, Ph.D. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Dr. Judy Rice, DNP, PMHNP, FNP – East Tennessee State University, and more

Location: Tennessee

A Season of Contact Tracing Highlights School Nurses’ Influence Beyond School Walls

Sep 10, 2020

Before 2020, Eileen Gavin, MSN, FNP-BC, NCSN, who co-leads a more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

Nursing Leadership Connection - The Secret Sauce

Sep 09, 2020

The Colorado Action Coalition has been committed to nursing leadership development for years.  We have several unique, innovative programs that Susan Moyer, Karren Kowalski, and others have been building out since the previous set of recommendations were issued.  Among more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Colorado

Collective Destiny: “We Must Agree on What Is Needed”

Sep 08, 2020

“The failures of public policy and imagination have been stalking us for years, creating haves and have-nots,” wrote Richard Besser, MD, in an opinion piece earlier this year when COVID-19 had just begun appearing in the U.S. That searing observation was the essence of a more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

Why Nurses Need To Share Their Stories

Sep 01, 2020

An Interview With SHIFT Talk’s Nacole Riccaboni Nacole Riccaboni is a board-certified RN and critical care nurse practitioner with a passion for professional more

Issues: Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Promoting Nursing Leadership

Advancing Health Equity in the Era of COVID-19

Aug 24, 2020

When the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced its forthcoming report on the Future of Nursing 2020-2030 last year, the study committee’s task was clear: to chart a path for the profession that would contribute to improving the population’s health and reduce health more

Common Ground: Advancing Full Practice Authority During COVID-19

Aug 21, 2020

The pandemic has magnified a host of health care issues, from workforce shortages and health care access to the cost of care and widening health disparities. Looking to address the public health crisis, officials have made many policy changes to ensure patient care. One of more

Issues: Improving Access to Care