In Dark Times, NAM Study Sees a Bright Future for Nursing

May 11, 2021

Earlier today, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) released its eagerly awaited report, The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity. The report’s dedication to “nurses around the world who paid the ultimate price of caring for people more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Improving Health Equity Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education

Entrepreneurs with Heart: Tom Ahrens and Natasha Dickinson

Apr 16, 2021

Solving problems is in nurses’ DNA. When they implement a “workaround,” we call them more

Improving the Nation’s Health Equity through a More Diverse Nursing Workforce

Apr 12, 2021

“Nursing…has a responsibility to society to prepare a health care workforce that is truly going to serve and be able to be truly take care of everyone in our growing diverse society. That is embedded in our ethical code.” – Sheldon Fields, PhD, RN, FAAN (March 30, more

Issues: Improving Health Equity

Looking back to look forward

Feb 23, 2021

Nurses, nurse leaders, nurse champions and allies from across the country will virtually gather Wednesday to reflect on the profession’s achievements since the release of the 2010 Institute of Medicine report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. More more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Improving Health Equity Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education

Two AARP Programs to Fund Ideas Large and Small

Feb 22, 2021

AARP applauds and supports innovators and entrepreneurs who aim to improve others’ lives with two funding opportunities: The 2022 Purpose Prize, and the 2021 Community Challenge. Applications for both are now being accepted. “The AARP Purpose Prize,” said AARP CEO Jo more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

Push for New Nurses Seeks to Reduce Wealth & Health Disparities

Jan 26, 2021

While the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action has from its start sought to increase diversity in the nursing workforce and continues to emphasize inclusivity, it will introduce a new aspect of its efforts to improve America’s health on Feb. 3. That’s when the Campaign more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Increasing Diversity in Nursing

How to put people first in the new year

Jan 25, 2021

If 2020 was a calamity, 2021 has the makings of a year of hope. The most visible signs of that hope are the vaccines currently being received by nurses, physicians, and other frontline workers across the country. For our overtaxed care providers, this is a much-needed more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Health Equity

Our Most-Read Posts of 2020

Dec 23, 2020

As the Year of the Nurse and Midwife ends, we take time to look back on the Campaign’s most read stories of a tumultuous and dangerous year that nursing, and the rest of the world, will not soon forget. Most of the articles you’ll see below focus on the nursing more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership