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Retirement Opportunities That Allow Nurses to “Do More”

Sep 25, 2018

When Ellen Elpern, MSN, RN, retired, she was eager to invest more time and energy in her profession. She also wanted to maintain a connection to the medical center where she spent almost 40 years providing inpatient care. But she soon discovered that few volunteer positions are more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

Encore Performance: Retired Nurses Find Fulfillment Through Volunteering

Sep 20, 2018

Charting Nursing’s Future profiles four retired nurses who are staying active and continuing to contribute to their communities through volunteer work. Three are making sure that people with economic, social or emotional challenges gain access to the supports they need to build more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

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A School Nurse in 2018

Sep 11, 2018

As a new academic year begins, school nurses are making headlines for their many and varied roles caring for America’s children. Recent stories have highlighted how the job has changed significantly from the days of the first school nurse, hired in the early 1900s to reduce more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National

2018 Michigan Nursing Summit: Taking Health Care Upstream

Sep 06, 2018

October 18-19, 2018|Lansing, MI OVERVIEW: The Michigan Center for Nursing’s annual Michigan Nursing Summit convenes nurses from all over the state of Michigan. This year’s Summit will equip nurses with knowledge to promote understanding of underlying health factors, and more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Michigan

Don’t Let Myths About HIPAA Get in the Way of Good Care

Sep 06, 2018

Approximately 40 million family caregivers assume responsibility for the health of loved ones. They bring patients to hospital emergency rooms, drive patients between providers and pharmacies, and oversee at-home care. In many cases, they manage complex medication regimens, more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

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New Data Show Continued Progress toward Future of Nursing Goals

Sep 04, 2018

Progress continues toward meeting Future of Nursing goals established in 2010 by the then-Institute of Medicine, with particularly noteworthy improvements seen in nursing education. This is illustrated by the latest update to the Campaign Dashboard, a series of national measures more

Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Transforming Nursing Education Location: National

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What Nurses Do

Aug 30, 2018

My work on Charting Nursing’s Future brings me into contact with nurses crunching workforce data, monitoring disease outbreaks, and saving lives in the aftermath of natural disasters—activities that all occur outside the walls of traditional health care settings. And in the more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National