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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Campaign for Action Launches Award Program to Recognize Equity-Minded Nurses

    Jul 17, 2023

    The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is pleased to announce it is accepting applications for a new award program, co-sponsored by nursing organizations, that will recognize nurses who are more

  8. Join NOBC to Participate in an Innovation Project to Increase Health Equity!

    Jul 07, 2023

    The Mississippi Action Coalition, in a collaborative role with the Nurses On Boards Coalition, is honored and proud to have received one of 16 Health Equity Innovation Grant Awards. We have embarked on a project, “Strengthening Nurses’ Voices to Improve Health Equity: A Community-based Approach, ”to identify and address gaps and barriers preventing more

    Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing Location: Mississippi

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