Columnist: “One Small Step” Would Be Big Leap for Health Care

Feb 09, 2017

A. Barton Hinkle, senior editorial writer and a columnist at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, lives in a state in which, as he writes, nurses “are forbidden to practice medicine independently.” His column headlined “One Small Step to Improve Health Care” is heavy on facts more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: Virginia

Oregon Offers Online Toolkit to Help Nurses Pursue Board Positions

Feb 07, 2017

By Jana Bitton, MPA, executive director, Oregon Center for Nursing There’s no question about it: Nurses need to lead. With the changing health care delivery environment, nurses are needed more than ever to be leaders not just in their profession, but also in their more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Oregon

National

Nurse Practitioners Make Most of Nation’s House Calls

Feb 06, 2017

A growing number of nurse practitioners is answering the growing need for house calls. The number of nurse practitioners making house calls to older adults topped the number of physicians providing such care, says a study that also notes that state regulations make it more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National

Film Festivals Feature Documentary of American Indian Nurses

Feb 02, 2017

The North Dakota State University School of Nursing has pursued its goal of recruiting more American Indians into the field in a new way: film. “Essence of Healing: Journey of American Indian Nurses,” a documentary that follows 14 American Indian nurses from the Northern more

Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing Location: North Dakota

“Give Texas Nurses Full Authority to Heal”

Jan 31, 2017

“Texas is overwhelmingly rural,” writes the director of AARP Texas; it ranks 41st in the nation for the number of physicians per 100,000 people. So why aren’t nurses allowed to provide all the care they’ve been trained to provide? In the online paid piece on TribTalk, more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: Texas

Young Tennessee Nurse Follows Mentors in Learning to Lead

Jan 24, 2017

“An amazing woman with a compelling story,” is what the Tennessee Action Coalition ’s nursing leader Carole R. Myers, PhD, RN, says about Chisa Huffman, who last month received her master’s in nursing. The University of Tennessee-Knoxville graduate is also a shining more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Tennessee