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50 Nurses Outline Profession’s Most Pressing Issues

Nov 21, 2016

Nurses have an unprecedented opportunity to improve the nation’s health, writes Susan B. Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, in a book that’s a call to action for the profession to speak with a unified voice to create healthy societies at community, state, national, and global levels. more

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Good Health Knows No Boundaries (or Shouldn’t)

Nov 17, 2016

Just as a driver’s license allows people to cruise state to state without having to pass other driving tests, the nursing profession has long had the Nurse Licensure Compact. However, that agreement among 25 states to let nurses use a multistate license to provide care across more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National

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Celebrating America’s Nurse Practitioners

Nov 15, 2016

The American Association of Nurse Practitioners writes: “National Nurse Practitioner Week is held annually to celebrate these exceptional health care providers and to remind lawmakers of the importance of removing outdated barriers to practice so that NPs will be allowed to more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

Good, busy year for the Nurse Diversity Council of Pennsylvania

Nov 14, 2016

In Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Action Coalition’s Nurse Diversity Council (PA-NDC) has been busy bolstering the nursing workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve! The PA-NDC’s mission is to increase diversity throughout more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Pennsylvania

Leadership Courses Required at This University

Nov 14, 2016

“You’re graduating as a nurse leader,” all nursing majors at Widener University are told. That’s because nursing students at Widener, near Philadelphia, also attend courses at the Oskin Leadership Institute. Widener sends students in several disciplines to the institute; more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership

Nurse Pursues the Quiet, Urgent Needs of Rural Veterans

Nov 11, 2016

Nearly a quarter of the nation’s veterans have a hard time getting health care because they live far from providers, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs—a problem of particular concern because often veterans have health needs related to military service. more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

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Gauging the Ups and Downs in Number, Education of Nurses

Nov 11, 2016

The 2010 report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health warned of an impending shortage of nurses and a mismatch between nurses’ education and the population’s needs—factors that could threaten the quality of care in the United States. In its report, more

Issues: Transforming Nursing Education Location: National