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We’re Making Headway on the IOM Nursing Goals
Feb 20, 2019
For nearly a decade now, the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, our state-based Action Coalitions, and supporters and allies across the nation have worked tirelessly to implement the Institute of Medicine’s Future of Nursing report recommendations. To help mark our 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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New Resource Highlights Nurses Heeding the Call to Earn Their BSN
Feb 13, 2019
The percentage of registered nurses who hold a bachelor’s of science in nursing or higher is at an all-time high with a national average of about 56 percent, up from about 49 percent in 2010. The number shows that registered nurses are heeding the call to pursue higher more
Issues: Transforming Nursing Education Location: National
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RWJF State Implementation Program Resources Available on Campaign Website
Jan 31, 2019
Credit:Bill Oxford More than 100 resources created as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Future of Nursing: State Implementation Program (SIP) are now available on the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action website. For four years, SIP helped bolster more
Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education
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Our Top 8 Stories for 2018
Dec 27, 2018
From states’ efforts to make nurse-led care more accessible to all to the Duchess of Cambridge taking up nursing’s mantle, 2018 was a big year in health care and nursing, and the more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities 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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Article Looks to the Future of Academic Progression in Nursing
Dec 11, 2018
Data collected since 2010 show that nurses’ education levels are advancing and that registered nurses increasingly have a bachelor’s degree or higher. But there is still work to do, says a new article published by education experts at the Center to Champion Nursing in more
Issues: Transforming Nursing Education
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Nurses (and a Nurse Champion) Win Congressional Seats in Mid-Term Election
Nov 08, 2018
At least one nurse and a well-known champion of the nursing profession won congressional seats in Tuesday’s election, while two additional nurse House members were re-elected, and one nurse left office. Here’s the run-down on nurses in the 116th Congress: U.S. Rep. more
Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National
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Facing Growing Pressure, States Are Tackling Outdated Nurse Practitioner Laws
Feb 19, 2018
With a looming physician shortage and a dearth of health care providers in rural areas, states are increasingly turning to nurse practitioners, a type of advanced practice registered nurse (APRN), to meet the demand for health care. But in many states, outdated laws prohibit more
Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National
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New Video Highlights Role of Nurse Practitioners in Rural West Virginia
Feb 15, 2018
A new video highlights the important role nurse practitioners are playing in delivering primary care in rural West Virginia. Bolstered by the passage of a 2016 law that was supported by AARP and others, the Mountain State now permits nurse practitioners to perform all the more
Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National West Virginia