Leaders Learn Tips for Strengthening Nursing School Mentorship Programs

Mar 07, 2025

Mentoring for Success with Schools of Nursing workshop at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Md., on Tuesday, September 10, 2024. Photo: Lexey Swall. Nursing leaders participating in a workshop learned how to strengthen school mentorship programs to improve graduation and more

“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

Campaign for Action Launches Award Program to Recognize Equity-Minded Nurses

Jul 17, 2023

The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is pleased to announce it is accepting applications for a new award program, co-sponsored by nursing organizations, that will recognize nurses who are more

Ten Things You Can Do to Support Nurses

Feb 02, 2023

Americans have identified nurses as the most trusted profession, in or out of health care, every year for the last two decades. But nurses across the country are exhausted, discouraged and leaving their roles or the profession in droves. It is time for a re-calibration. Read more

AARP & RWJF Name Recipients of Health Equity Innovations Fund Awards

Jan 10, 2023

Updated as of August 15, 2023 Contact: Mary Boyle, CCNA Communications Director at mboyle@aarp.org The AARP Center for Health Equity through NursingSM and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson more

Calls to Action for Advancing Health Equity

Dec 15, 2022

(left to right) Edna Kane Williams , Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, AARP and Aisha K. Mix, DNP, MPH, RN, FAAN, Rear Admiral,Assistant Surgeon General Chief Nurse Officer, U.S. Public Health Service  at the  AARP Health Equity Summit on more

Courageous Careers: Nurse Leaders Talk About “Failing Forward”

Nov 04, 2022

Jennie Chin Hansen, MS, RN, FAAN, vice chair of the Institute for Nursing Leadership National Advisory Council, moderated a question-and-answer session with presenters at the American Academy of Nursing’s 2022 Health Policy Conference. Photo credit: American Academy of more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership

Advancing Health Equity: The Rise of Equity-Minded Nurses

Sep 26, 2022

In the wake of a national inflection point after the highly publicized killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery in 2020, nurses have become even more activated to leverage the potential of the nursing profession to advance health equity. In May 2021, the more