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Nurses "Expand Depth of Knowledge," Reinhard Writes in Trustee Magazine

Mar 15, 2017

Susan Reinhard, RN, PhD, FAAN, is chief strategist for the Center to Champion Nursing in America, senior vice president and director of AARP’s Public Policy Institute, and serves on seven boards. She is also a registered nurse. For all those reasons, Trustee magazine recently more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National
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Charting Nursing’s Future Offers Big Picture on How Laws Affect the Public

Mar 13, 2017

Rely as Americans may on nurses—and with 3.6 million registered nurses in this country, we do—most do not know a lot about nurses, including the fact that some 350,000 are engaged in advanced practice. That’s only one reason the latest issue of Charting Nursing’s more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National
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Reinhard, ANA President Consider Altered Health Care System

Mar 09, 2017

Susan Reinhard, PhD, RN, FAAN, the senior vice president and director of the AARP Public Policy Institute and chief strategist of the Center to Champion Nursing in America, was one of “two very policy-smart nurses” interviewed about possible changes coming to America’s health more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National
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Campaign Friends and Allies Abound in List of Top Women in Health Care

Mar 07, 2017

Modern Healthcare is out with its list of the top 25 women in health care. The Campaign congratulates them all, and is pleased to call the following friends and allies. Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, serves on the Campaign’s Strategic Advisory more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National
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2017 Culture of Health Sessions to Be Tailored to Action Coalitions

Mar 07, 2017

“Building on the Campaign for Action Pillars to Create a Healthier America” is the name, and the aim, of regional meetings to be held in 2017 for Action Coalitions. Similar to last summer’s meetings, these workshops reflect the new needs and growth of Action Coalitions as they combine efforts to create healthier communities with their pursuit of the more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National
Prevent & Control Diabetes in Iowans: A Call to Action!

Mar 07, 2017

A statewide diabetes prevention and diabetes self-management education services survey was conducted in the fall of 2016. Goals of the survey were twofold. First, the survey identified current gaps and barriers in offering diabetes prevention program (DPP) services and diabetes self-management education (DSME) services for patients within the healthcare more

Location: Iowa
Nebraska Action Coalition Announces New Non-Nursing Co-Lead, New Partner

Mar 07, 2017

The Nebraska Action Coalition (NAC) welcomes StrategicHealthSolutions as its newest non-nurse co-lead. Strategic works to ensure the sustainability of America’s health care system by working closely with government on fraud, waste, and abuse in our national health insurance programs. Based in Omaha, Strategic was founded by a Nebraska nurse who grew the more

Location: Nebraska
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Updated Campaign Dashboard Reflects Progress

Mar 06, 2017

Positive trends in nursing education, leadership, and scope of practice are just a few of the changes seen in the latest round of updates to the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action Dashboard. The Dashboard is a series of graphs and charts used to track efforts to implement more

Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National