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

Wisconsin Nurses Lead in Disaster Preparedness That Leaves No One Behind

Jul 05, 2022

In principle, a novel pathogen like COVID-19 should affect everyone equally. But very early in the pandemic, it became clear that this was not the case. Once the disease was established in the United States, Black and Native American communities were hit especially hard more

Location: Wisconsin

Beyond GPA: Holistic Admissions Can Help Build a More Diverse Nursing Workforce

Jun 23, 2022

A diverse nursing workforce is essential to achieving health equity in the United States. Holistic admissions practices are an important tool nursing schools can use to contribute to that goal. But changing admissions systems is complex, and a successful transformation more

Location: Indiana