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Life-Saving Innovation Can Be as Simple as an Orange Vest

Aug 15, 2017

At a trauma unit in a Toronto hospital, it’s easy to see who’s in charge: the person wearing the orange vest. A recent column in the New York Times credits a nurse with coming up with this “simple yet effective innovation,” an idea inspired by the confusion among 20 more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National

Suicide Prevention Research Is Part of Her Service to Others

Aug 10, 2017

Erica Joseph, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC, NP-C is a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and family nurse practitioner with the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Healthcare System. She has worked as a nurse practitioner in the specialty area of psychiatry/mental more

Issues: Improving Access to Care

Oregon Center for Nursing Releases New Podcast Series on Board Service

Aug 04, 2017

Now, nurses who love podcasts have a new way to learn about serving on boards. The Oregon Center for Nursing (OCN), in partnership with the Oregon Action Coalition, released the Oregon Nurses on Boards Podcast, a series to explore the ins and outs of board service for more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Oregon

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First Nurse at NCAA Is “Inspired to Keep Next Generation Healthy”

Aug 04, 2017

This is the sixth in a series of profiles of leaders who are part of the Campaign talking about their connections to the nursing or health care profession and their interests in healthier communities. Jessica Gonzalez, MPH, BSN, RN, CLC, is assistant director of more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Indiana National

Understanding Unconscious Bias Can Promote Health Equity

Aug 01, 2017

This post has been updated with a link to the July 26 webinar. Kupiri Ackerman-Barger is assistant clinical professor and co-director of the Interprofessional Teaching Scholars Program at the University of California, Davis, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, and an more

Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing

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Nursing Journeys: Being An Advocate for Change

Jul 27, 2017

David DeBiasi, RN, BSN, poses in 1988 with a colleague at Springfield Hospital in Springfield, Vermont. The picture appeared in a local newspaper with an article introducing the public to the new patient-controlled more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National Virginia