Texas Laws Are Hurdles to Good Health, Business Chief Argues

Dec 12, 2016

In an opinion piece that ran in a number of publications last week, the CEO of the Texas Association of Business called Texas laws that restrict nurses “nonsensical and unfair” in a state that “does not have enough health care providers to meet our population’s needs.” That more

Nurses Get Hospitalized Patients Walking, Feeling Better

Dec 09, 2016

“Get on your feet” is the message a recent nurse-led pilot study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is sending older patients. The problem the study tackled: as many as 65 percent of older patients lose their ability to walk while they’re in the hospital. Yet walking more

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Nurse Leaders Report High Job Satisfaction

Dec 08, 2016

Increasing the number of nurse leaders offers myriad benefits to a country with a health care system in transition and a population that is aging. Now, a survey from the American Organization of Nurse Executives finds that nurses in leadership positions find their jobs highly more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

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One Year Later: Reviewing the Culture of Health Summit

Dec 06, 2016

One year ago this week, hundreds of nurse leaders and others met in Washington, D.C., at the national Summit hosted by the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, a joint initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), to celebrate and learn more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National

Educators Offer Ideas to Match Rapid Pace of Change

Dec 05, 2016

This is the sixth in a series of posts about the top issues facing nursing today as covered in The Power of Ten: A Conversational Approach to Tackling the Top Ten Priorities in Nursing. Requiring future nurses, doctors, and other health professionals to all major in health more

Issues: Transforming Nursing Education

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Nurse Practitioner Sees Progress in Removing Barriers to Care

Dec 01, 2016

This is the fifth in a series of posts about the top issues facing nursing today as covered in The Power of Ten: A Conversational Approach to Tackling the Top Ten Priorities in Nursing. Nurse practitioners have made tremendous progress in “earning the right to take full more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National

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HIV Model for Interprofessional Collaboration Should Be the Norm

Nov 30, 2016

This is the fourth in a series of posts about the top issues facing nursing today as covered in The Power of Ten: A Conversational Approach to Tackling the Top Ten Priorities in Nursing. When Stephen Perez, MS, RN, ANP-BC, ACRN, entered the HIV nursing field in the early more

Issues: Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Location: National