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For All You Did in 2019, Thank You!

Dec 10, 2019

At the start of 2019, we were anticipating great progress and big news on many fronts. Thanks to you, the last 12 months have lived up to those hopes. Even as we continue advancing on our mission to strengthen our profession, we are growing to embrace a more more

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

Pitt County and Lenoir County Action Coalition Members Honored

Dec 07, 2019

On November 15, 2019 The North Carolina Action Coalition teams from Pitt County and Lenoir County were honored for their Livable Community work. The event took place in Wilmington, NC at the AARP Evening of Inspiration. Pictured from left to right are the team more

Location: North Carolina

The Importance of Diversity in Nursing

Dec 03, 2019

Nurses are essential to meeting the growing demand on health care in the United States. But according to an Institute of Medicine report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Health, Advancing Change, the health care system needs a “greater emphasis” on increasing diversity of more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Increasing Diversity in Nursing

Industry Leaders Offer a Glimpse into the Future of Nursing

Nov 25, 2019

Priya Bathija and Robyn Begley were among the industry leaders who presented last week at a National Academy Medicine panel on the Future of Nursing 2020-2030. Photo courtesy of the American Hospital more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

AARP, RWJF Leaders Write About Combined Histories, Successes

Nov 22, 2019

When the nation’s largest philanthropy devoted to improving health and health care connected with the nation’s largest consumer membership organization, good things were bound more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education

Nurses involved in 2019 Culture of Health Prize Winning Community

Nov 19, 2019

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation selected five communities to receive the 2019 RWJF Culture of Health Prize. The communities – Broward County, Fla; Greenville County, S.C.; Gonzales, Calif.; Lake County, Colo; and Sitka, Alaska – came together around a shared commitment more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

RWJF Health Policy Fellow Creating Pipeline of Health Policy Leaders

Nov 15, 2019

Sharron Crowder, PhD, RN, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Health Policy Fellow and clinical associate professor at Indiana University School of Nursing, taught a health policy course for graduate nursing students in 2013 at the request of her dean, little realizing more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership