Our mission: Improve the current and future health of all Delawareans through a collaborative effort by an interdisciplinary team of nurses, health care providers and community partners, positioning nurses as leaders in the transformation of health care in Delaware.
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Delaware Action Coalition
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Delaware Innovation Grant Featured in NASN School Nurse
The BSD Lifesavers Middle School Program, recipient of a 2021 Campaign for Action Innovation Grant, has been chosen for a feature article in the peer-reviewed clinical journal, NASN School Nurse. The article, Moving Upstream to Address Health Inequity- A Middle more
Locations: Delaware,
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A Delaware School District Program Provides Early Exposure to Nursing
As its 2021 Nursing Innovations Fund project, Delaware’s Brandywine School District (BSD) piloted an afterschool program, BSD’s Lifesavers, to increase awareness of nursing careers among students from underrepresented communities. Working with key stakeholders, more
Issues: Improving Health Equity, Increasing Diversity in Nursing, Locations: Delaware,
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Delaware Nurses Association Receives $500,000 in Delaware ARPA Funds to Support Nurse Mental Health and Wellbeing
This press release was initially posted on the Delaware Nurses’ Association website. NEWARK, DE – May 11, 2022 – The Delaware Nurses Association (DNA) announced it will receive $500,000.00 in state American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds for a capital project to more
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Campaign Names Winners of 2021 Nursing Innovations Fund Award
The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), has announced that six nurse-led projects will receive Nursing Innovations Fund awards of up to $25,000 each. The projects submitted by more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Improving Health Equity, Locations: Delaware, Kentucky, Montana, Pennsylvania, Utah, West Virginia,
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Delaware Becomes 24th State to Recognize Full Practice Authority for APRNs
Delaware’s nearly 1 million residents now have improved access to primary health care from advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), thanks to two bills signed into law August 4, 2021 by Gov. John Carney (D). The first, HB 141, authorizes nurse practitioners more
Issues: Improving Access to Care, Locations: Delaware,
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Collective Impact in Sussex County, Delaware
Collective Impact is working in Sussex County, Delaware according to Megan Williams, DNP, APRN, FAANP, Board President, Sussex County Health Coalition and Vice President of the Delaware Healthcare Association and Peg Geisler, Executive Director, Sussex County Health more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Locations: Delaware,
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Rita Landgraf and the State of Health in Delaware
Delaware Nursing Summit 2019This blog is the second in a series from the Delaware Nursing Summit 2019 and provides highlights from speaker, Rita Landgraf. Former Cabinet Secretary of Delaware Health and Social Services Rita Landgraf reminded more than 100 nurses from across the state of the more
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Delaware Nursing Summit 2019- Setting the Nursing Agenda with Pat Polansky
This is the first in a series describing highlights from information shared by speakers at the Summit “I am a health care provider.” “I am a nurse…” began Pat Polansky, co-director of the Center to Champion Nursing in America, an more
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DELAWARE NURSING SUMMIT
MAY 15, 2019The Delaware Nursing Summit is the critical next step for the Delaware nurses as we join 50 Action Coalitions across the country, all working to meet the goals identified in the landmark IOM report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. With over more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Improving Access to Care, Locations: Delaware,
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Save the date! May 15, 2019
Please join us for the Delaware Nursing Summit: Future of Nursing on Wednesday May 15, 2019 at the University of Delaware STAR Tower in Newark from 8am -4 PM. Nursing has made great strides in advancing health thanks to the many nursing leaders in Delaware more
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Our Leaders
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Beth Mattey, MSN, RN, NCSN, FNASN
Coordinator of School Health Services, Brandywine School District
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Christopher E. Otto, MSN, RN, CHFN, PCCN, CCRN
Executive Director, Delaware Nurses Association & Registered Nurse, ChristianaCare