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Nurses, Here’s Your Chance to Be Heard!
…been periodically counting U.S. nurses since the 1970s. The results are intended to answer many questions about RNs at both the national and state levels. How old are nurses? How…
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Culture of Health and Nursing Education Learning Collaborative
…each of the essentials, she provided a crosswalk to the Culture of Health Action Areas and Drivers. She also reviewed other competencies within nursing curricula and shared questions that can…
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Nursing Journeys: Moving Diversity in Nursing Forward
…it was a question of affordability. At the time, I was lucky enough to be working at a full-time job that had a very generous tuition reimbursement plan, and I…
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Don’t Let Myths About HIPAA Get in the Way of Good Care
…are often discharged within hours after complex surgeries such as hip replacements, with family members entrusted to oversee medication administration and wound care. “When family members have a question at…
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Alabama Reports on Demographics of RN Workforce
The Alabama Health Action Coalition (Al_HAC) created a 31-question survey that was included with the 2016 Alabama Board of Nursing RN license renewal application. The Action Coalition developed a report…
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Alabama Surveys Nursing Programs to Track Diversity Metrics
…worked with nursing school deans and directors to refine the questions, and disseminated the tool electronically. Findings from the survey showed that targeted recruitment efforts and mentoring programs positively affected…
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Mayor Jean Stothert: A First for Omaha
…the policy arena? How has their nursing perspective informed their policymaking? We asked these questions, and others, of Jean Stothert. In 2013, she became the first woman to serve as…
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Campaign Maps Show Nurses’ Progress in Earning BSN Degree
…prefer to continue to share their state-level data. Interpretation of data used for BSN maps This memo is intended to address questions about state-level data on the percentage of registered…
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