Champions for Health Equity through Nursing pursue shared goals of improving consumer access to care, strengthening and diversifying the nursing workforce, promoting nurse leadership at all levels, and advancing health equity solutions.

Involvement includes:

• Co-creating and implementing initiatives to eliminate health disparities and advance health equity.
• Helping build the numbers, diversity, and effectiveness of the nursing workforce through policy changes, mentoring, and other strategies.
• Advancing public and institutional policy solutions that expand consumer access to health care and services, including helping nurses practice to the full extent of their education and training.
• Disseminating content, solutions and programs to key audiences
• Educating and activating key audiences on shared priorities.
• Connecting members and stakeholders with each other’s state-based entities such as state nursing associations, the Campaign’s state-based Action Coalitions, and AARP state offices.
• Participating in and promoting events that support the recommendations of the National Academy of Medicine’s Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity.

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