AARP, AACN Critical Care, and RWJF Name Recipients of 2024 Health Equity and Nursing Innovations Fund Awards

Jul 09, 2024

Grants Will Fund Strengthening Nursing Workforce and Healthy Work Environments Contact: Mary Boyle, mboyle@aarp.org AARP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN Critical Care), and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP more

Webinar: Measuring the Value of Nurses on Boards: Findings from a New Survey

May 31, 2024

In 2023, the Mississippi Action Coalition and the Nurses on Boards Coalition conducted an inaugural survey to demonstrate the value of nurses serving on governing boards. Developed with a 2022 Health Equity Innovations Fund Award, this survey was the first comprehensive tool more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Mississippi

Preparing Teens and Young Adults for Health Care Careers

Jul 20, 2023

AARP and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, proudly support the Summer Health Institute for Nurse Exploration and Success or SHINES program. SHINES is helping create a stable and diverse more

Location: California

Join NOBC to Participate in an Innovation Project to Increase Health Equity!

Jul 07, 2023

The Mississippi Action Coalition, in a collaborative role with the Nurses On Boards Coalition, is honored and proud to have received one of 16 Health Equity Innovation Grant Awards. We have embarked on a project, “Strengthening Nurses’ Voices to Improve Health Equity: A more

Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing Location: Mississippi

Celebrating the Grand Opening of the Aila Accad Center for Nurse Entrepreneurship

Sep 26, 2022

Ribbon cutting ceremony for the Aila Accad Center for Nurse Entrepreneurship. The Future of Nursing West Virginia Action Coalition held the grand opening of the Aila Accad Center for Nurse Entrepreneurship Saturday, September 24, ahead of the West Virginia 2022 Gala more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: West Virginia

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

A Delaware School District Program Provides Early Exposure to Nursing

Aug 04, 2022

As its 2021 Nursing Innovations Fund project, Delaware’s Brandywine School District (BSD) piloted an afterschool program, BSD’s Lifesavers, to increase awareness of nursing careers among students from underrepresented communities. Working with key stakeholders, project staff more

Issues: Improving Health Equity Increasing Diversity in Nursing Location: Delaware

Dinner Theater: An Innovative Approach to Reducing Suicide Among Kentucky Farmers

Jul 11, 2022

What kind of initiative brings together a beef council, a local theater group, and a state’s largest university? A Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action-supported program where nurses take on the problem of suicide in innovative ways. The Campaign is an initiative of AARP more

Location: Kentucky