Center to Champion Nursing in America, RWJF to Honor Colleagues

Oct 29, 2018

The Center to Champion Nursing in America, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will join RWJF on Friday to co-host a reception at the American Academy of Nursing’s annual policy conference, in Washington D.C. This year’s meeting more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership

The 2nd Annual Celebration of Rural Nursing

Oct 25, 2018

On Friday, November 30, 2018, all nine NC AHECs will host eight concurrent conferences for nurses serving rural North Carolina. Two statewide broadcast keynote addresses will link all the regions together. Each AHEC will offer additional live, on-site presentations that focus on more

Location: North Carolina

Nurses, Be Counted

Oct 22, 2018

Nurses, Be Counted! You may know that the Nurses on Boards Coalition is in the midst of its annual campaign to register nurses’ board service. If you serve on a board, and haven’t already registered, please visit the Nurses on Boards Coalition website, and be counted. The more

Location: North Carolina

New Paper Lays Out Why Nurse Practitioners Are the Solution

Oct 15, 2018

This is a revised version of an earlier post. See correction below. “Primary care is a crucial component of American health care, but it faces steep challenges, beginning with ever-increasing demand for primary care services,” writes health care economist Peter more

Issues: Improving Access to Care

Funding Bill Includes Push to VA Facilities to Let Nurses Practice

Oct 09, 2018

President Trump signed into law on September 21 a funding bill for the nation’s veterans, and part of it boosted efforts to implement a policy approved nearly two years ago to more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care

National

A School Nurse in 2018

Sep 11, 2018

As a new academic year begins, school nurses are making headlines for their many and varied roles caring for America’s children. Recent stories have highlighted how the job has changed significantly from the days of the first school nurse, hired in the early 1900s to reduce more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National

2018 Michigan Nursing Summit: Taking Health Care Upstream

Sep 06, 2018

October 18-19, 2018|Lansing, MI OVERVIEW: The Michigan Center for Nursing’s annual Michigan Nursing Summit convenes nurses from all over the state of Michigan. This year’s Summit will equip nurses with knowledge to promote understanding of underlying health factors, and more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Michigan

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New Data Show Continued Progress toward Future of Nursing Goals

Sep 04, 2018

Progress continues toward meeting Future of Nursing goals established in 2010 by the then-Institute of Medicine, with particularly noteworthy improvements seen in nursing education. This is illustrated by the latest update to the Campaign Dashboard, a series of national measures more

Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Transforming Nursing Education Location: National