Leaders Learn Tips for Strengthening Nursing School Mentorship Programs

Mar 07, 2025

Mentoring for Success with Schools of Nursing workshop at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Md., on Tuesday, September 10, 2024. Photo: Lexey Swall. Nursing leaders participating in a workshop learned how to strengthen school mentorship programs to improve graduation and more

“Everyone Can Play a Role” in Advancing Health Equity

Dec 11, 2023

Attendees at the summit. How can we make real progress on critical health care priorities like advancing health equity, diversifying the nursing workforce, mitigating the workforce crisis through the recruitment and retention of nurses, and elevating the concept of more

Issues: Improving Health Equity Increasing Diversity in Nursing

Campaign for Action Launches Award Program to Recognize Equity-Minded Nurses

Jul 17, 2023

The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is pleased to announce it is accepting applications for a new award program, co-sponsored by nursing organizations, that will recognize nurses who are more

Ten Things You Can Do to Support Nurses

Feb 02, 2023

Americans have identified nurses as the most trusted profession, in or out of health care, every year for the last two decades. But nurses across the country are exhausted, discouraged and leaving their roles or the profession in droves. It is time for a re-calibration. Read more

AARP & RWJF Name Recipients of Health Equity Innovations Fund Awards

Jan 10, 2023

Updated as of August 15, 2023 Contact: Mary Boyle, CCNA Communications Director at mboyle@aarp.org The AARP Center for Health Equity through NursingSM and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson more

Advancing Health Equity: The Rise of Equity-Minded Nurses

Sep 26, 2022

In the wake of a national inflection point after the highly publicized killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery in 2020, nurses have become even more activated to leverage the potential of the nursing profession to advance health equity. In May 2021, the more

Black Mother-Daughter Nurse-Led Clinic Expands Access to Care

Sep 23, 2022

Marcella Garner, DNP, CCRN, RN, (left) and Maleka Robinson, MSN, BSN, RN, (right) Maleka Robinson, MSN, BSN, RN, and her daughter Marcella Garner, DNP, CCRN, RN, made New Jersey history earlier this year when they opened the first Black-owned mother-daughter, nurse-led clinic more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership

Massachusetts Nurses and School Leaders Team Up to Take On Vaping and Improve Student Well-being

Aug 17, 2022

Nurses have been working with public schools to serve children for generations. In Massachusetts, nurses and school leaders used funding from the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action to improve the well-being of students, especially those living in communities with low more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Massachusetts