Black Mother-Daughter Nurse-Led Clinic Expands Access to Care

Sep 23, 2022

Marcella Garner, DNP, CCRN, RN, (left) and Maleka Robinson, MSN, BSN, RN, (right) Maleka Robinson, MSN, BSN, RN, and her daughter Marcella Garner, DNP, CCRN, RN, made New Jersey history earlier this year when they opened the first Black-owned mother-daughter, nurse-led clinic more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership

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

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

Campaign Moving Forward to Build Health Equity Through Nursing

Jul 08, 2022

The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action is pleased to announce that it will implement a new three-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to continue its work disrupting structural barriers to health equity by tapping the full potential of a diverse more

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

To Achieve Health Equity, Build a “Coalition of Coalitions”

Jun 16, 2022

Nurses’ efforts to achieve health equity are always stronger when they form partnerships with the community being served. That’s why matching funding and local partnerships were a requirement for every project supported by the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action’s more

Location: North Carolina

Nursing Innovations Funds Stimulate a Network of Partnerships for Health Equity

Jun 06, 2022

When nurses are empowered to create health equity in their communities, they bring together a network like nobody else can. The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has demonstrated this more

Issues: Improving Health Equity Location: Georgia Indiana Kentucky Massachusetts Nebraska North Carolina Pennsylvania Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

AARP AND NURSES: STRONGER TOGETHER

May 03, 2022

Celebrating National Nurses Week 2022 National Nurses week is an annual event that begins on May 6 and ends on May 12, Florence Nightingale’s birthday. As part of AARP, the Center to Champion Nursing in America (CCNA) is marking the week by reflecting on nurses as more