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Leadership Webinar Features NOBC Head, 2 Emerging Leaders

Aug 30, 2016

Laurie Benson, BSN, RN, executive director of the Nurses on Boards Coalition, is headline speaker in a free webinar September 15 at 1 p.m. ET. The Illinois Healthcare Action Coalition hosts Benson as she explains NOBC’s goal of increasing community health by boosting the number of nurses in leadership roles. Also speaking are two 40-under-40 emerging more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Illinois National
Explaining Voluntary RN License Survey Questions

Aug 29, 2016

The Alabama Board of Nursing (ABN) aligned its license renewal surveys with the National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) National RN Minimum Dataset (MDS) for the first time in 2015 with LPNs. This year, RNs in more

Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Location: Alabama
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Research Paper Lists Strategies Behind Nebraska’s Success in Changing Laws

Aug 25, 2016

In Nebraska between 2011 and 2013, legislators considered a staggering 1,795 bills related to scope of practice for all health professions. Of those, 349 were enacted. Now three researchers who are friends and allies of the Nebraska Action Coalition have produced a paper that analyzes the way decisions were made by various parties in the pitching, more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National
When Disaster Calls, Nurses Respond

Aug 25, 2016

At least one nurse reading the call from the Red Cross for nurses to help in Louisiana answered immediately: For Cindy Holle, RN, DNP, Tuesday, August 23, was Day Two volunteering for those desperately in need after the flooding that started August 12. Holle was busy even more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Location: Connecticut Louisiana
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FCC Mapping Tool Shows Links Between Internet Access, Health

Aug 22, 2016

In the United States, there is a high correlation between good access to the Internet and good health. We know this more precisely now thanks to a tool produced by the Federal Communications Commission’s Connect2Health task force. The Mapping Broadband Health in America more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National
North Carolina Nurses on Boards

Aug 19, 2016

North Carolina’s own, Connie Mullinix, PhD, MBA, MPH, RN and AnnMarie Walton, PhD, RN, OCN, CHES, are doing great work in the state to contribute to the Nurses on Boards Coalition and Action Coalitions’ national goal of achieving 10,000 nurses on boards by 2020. In their work, they have found how essential nurses are to hospital boards in efforts to, not more

Location: North Carolina
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Nurses Needed to Give Aid to Flood Victims in Louisiana

Aug 19, 2016

The American Red Cross Disaster Health Services has stepped in to help the thousands who are without food and shelter since the flooding hit southern Louisiana, and seeks especially nurses and other health care professionals. Exact duties and demands change daily, but there are two broad requirements: You can make a nine-day commitment (seven days of more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Louisiana National
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What You Can Do While VA Considers the APRN Proposal

Aug 17, 2016

Back in June, David Shulkin, MD, the top Veterans Health Administration official, told a reporter, “I’m not aware that we’ve received anything like this before.” He was referring to the 10,000 comments that arrived very soon after the Department of Veterans Affairs more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National