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The Dashboard, Campaign’s Measure(s) of Success, Gets Upgraded

Jun 02, 2016

Since the Institute of Medicine (IOM) set the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action on its course with its recommendations in 2010, the Campaign and its Action Coalitions have used a dashboard to keep track of progress. That gauge has just been updated, in an effort to better more

Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National
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VA One Step Closer to Allowing APRNs Full Practice Authority

May 27, 2016

Why can’t nurses be allowed to provide more care to veterans? That is what the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has asked for a while now. Back in January, the VA sent its proposal to the Office of Management and Budget. The VA’s big idea: to change regulations so that advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) in VA facilities were authorized more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National
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Pennsylvania Senate to Hear Bill to Ease Scope Restrictions; Research Backs It Up

May 27, 2016

Pennsylvanians are a step closer to being able to receive primary care with fewer hurdles, thanks to a bill that went to the state Senate earlier this month that would end the requirement that nurse practitioners maintain written contracts with physicians to practice and prescribe medication. And research published at the same time underscores the more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National Pennsylvania
Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) awards $17+ million in competitive institutional grants

May 26, 2016

On May 11, 2016 the Maryland Higher Education Commission awarded $17,565,478 in Competitive Institutional Grants through the Nurse Support Program II (NSP II). The NSP II Program is a unique grant program developed by the Maryland Higher Education Commission, the State’s postsecondary education coordinating board and funded through the Health Services Cost more

Location: Maryland
Connecticut Nurse Takes on Diversity

May 20, 2016

Connecticut Nursing Collaborative-Action Coalition Diversity Committee Chair is empowering young minority students to take steps toward nursing and other health care fields. MaryAnn Perez-Brescia, RN, MSN, a professor at a state community college, is committed to increasing diversity in the nursing workforce and improving health literacy in minority more

Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing Location: Connecticut
Key Partnerships Align to Improve Health Through Nursing Workforce Data

May 19, 2016

The Connecticut Nursing Collaborative-Action Coalition (CNC-AC) is partnering with the state’s Department of Labor and Department of Public Health to manage and analyze Connecticut’s nursing workforce data. The analysis will provide critical information for ongoing planning for the health of Connecticut residents, development of the nursing more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Connecticut
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Hassmiller Takes the Campaign on a Military Visit

May 19, 2016

The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action had two opportunities recently to address members of the armed forces about Campaign efforts to build more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National
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Meeting Sets the Stage for Improved Collection of Workforce Data

May 19, 2016

“In God we trust. All others bring data.” That’s how one speaker, quoting the late statistician William Edwards Deming, reflected on the point of the historic meeting held in Washington, D.C., May 9-10. For the first time, national nursing organizations and federal agencies that collect data on the nursing workforce came together to plan. The more

Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Location: National