Five Nurses Celebrated for Leadership and Innovation in Advancing Health Equity

Sep 10, 2024

AARP, National Nursing Orgs, Announce 2024 Equity-Minded Nurse Awardees Contact: Mary Boyle, mboyle@aarp.org Five outstanding nurses with very different specializations have been selected as recipients of the 2024 Equity-Minded Nurse Awards from the AARP Center for Health more

Positive Ways to Use Technology in Nursing Research

Jul 17, 2024

How can nurses leverage the widespread use of technology across age, heritage, and economic status to engage more people and communities in research? The digital divide has significantly narrowed over the past decade. What was once thought of as entertainment for more

Equity in Practice as a Nurse Practitioner

Jun 26, 2024

The opposite of equity in practice is inequity in practice. Once I began to understand the ways that groups of my patients were affected by various rules, expectations, stereotypes and historically racist policies, I also began to see inequity in practice.  Once more

Reckoning with the History of Nursing to Improve Maternal-Infant Health Outcomes

May 28, 2024

My health equity journey can be summed-up in the expression, “I am my sister’s (brother’s) keeper.” This phrase characterizes both the privileges and responsibilities that I hold, which are foundational to my leadership style and role as a nurse. As a Black woman, more

Location: Texas

Now Accepting Nominations for Equity-Minded Nurse Award Program

Mar 28, 2024

photo credit: (c) GETTY IMAGES/Biod The AARP Center for Health Equity through NursingSM (A-CHEN) and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, with support from national nursing organizations, is pleased to open a call for applications for the Equity-Minded Nurse Awards more

Social Determinants of Health. Now what?

Mar 22, 2024

photo credit: (c) GETTY IMAGES/Thomas Barwick. Portrait of multigenerational family standing of front porch of home I am fortunate enough to have the opportunity to share my thoughts about the importance of the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) framework and advancing more

Location: Kentucky

“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

Five Nurses Celebrated for Leadership and Innovation in Advancing Health Equity

Oct 31, 2023

2023 Equity-Minded Nurse Awards PRESS RELASEContact: Mary Boyle, Campaign for Action communications director, mboyle@aarp.org A nurse educator in Maryland who centers health equity in classroom innovations and program implementation. A nurse practitioner in more