A Heartfelt Thank You

Jan 14, 2021

First, a heartfelt thank you. Thank you for the contributions that we know you have made to your family, your community, the profession, and more, during a year of enormous challenges that include sickness in our ranks, burnout, grief, and worse. The pandemic has tested the more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education

Nursing Organizations Among Leaders Urging Caution in Crisis Care

Dec 22, 2020

Four leading nursing organizations are among 10 major health care groups appealing to governors and state health care leaders to agree to crisis standards of care based on individual assessment, not categories including age and disability, when it comes to allocating more

Community Support at the Tip of Your Fingers

Dec 17, 2020

Try as they might to be everything to everyone, and much as it might seem that they are, nurses and family caregivers cannot do it all. Especially now, as the pandemic surges and the holiday season approaches. This reality is made worse by today’s conundrum: While more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

Modernization of California Nurse Practitioner Practice is Overdue: Implications for Nurse-Led Clinics

Nov 18, 2020

The Need The need for the expansion and growth of nurse-led clinics, to deliver primary and behavioral health services, is well supported by health data from national, state, and local sources. These data document the extent of primary care physician shortages in underserved more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Location: California

New AARP Tool Reports on Nursing Home Staff Health and Resources During COVID-19 Pandemic

Oct 27, 2020

In the early fall, nearly 25 percent of all U.S. nursing homes reported at least one confirmed COVID-19 case among residents, more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

A Landmark Patient-Safety Action Plan, and Family Caregiving as a Key Piece

Oct 15, 2020

The work was exciting from the time of the committee’s formation and stayed that way throughout the process. In May 2018, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement convened the National Steering Committee (NSC) for Patient Safety as a collaboration among 27 national more

Collective Destiny: “We Must Agree on What Is Needed”

Sep 08, 2020

“The failures of public policy and imagination have been stalking us for years, creating haves and have-nots,” wrote Richard Besser, MD, in an opinion piece earlier this year when COVID-19 had just begun appearing in the U.S. That searing observation was the essence of a more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

Population Health in Nursing and the Response to COVID-19

Jul 02, 2020

Nurses across America are feeling challenged by the events of this year — most especially by the COVID-19 pandemic. But nurses also offer resources and solutions in these crises that no one else can. Working across the spectrum of care, our profession has perspective on more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education