The Michigan Nursing Action Coalition serves as the driving force transforming health care in our state with nurses at the heart of the delivery system. Understanding that Michigan has specific health care challenges and needs, we are working collaboratively with diverse stakeholders to create a culture of health leading to improved health and health outcomes for Michigan’s population.
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Michigan Action Coalition
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Speakers, Topics, & Agenda Announced for Upcoming Health Equity Event
We’re pleased to share our full lineup of speakers and the agenda for Achieving Health Equity through Growth, Innovation, and Reflection. This event will take place virtually on October 22, 2021. Achieving Health Equity Through Growth, Innovation, and more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Improving Health Equity, Locations: Michigan,
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Poster Presentations: 2019 Michigan Nursing Summit
Congratulations! The following nurses were accepted to display their posters at the 2019 Michigan Nursing Summit: Erin Booms, BSN, RN, DNP – Implementation of Sleep Apnea Screening Prior to Endoscopy Procedures in a Rural Hospital: A Quality Improvement more
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2019 Michigan Nursing Summit: Widening the Lens. Broadening Perspectives. Thinking Differently.
Join Us for the 2019 Michigan Nursing Summit October 17-18, 2019 | Detroit, MI OVERVIEW: The Michigan Center for Nursing’s Michigan Nursing Summit is an annual event that convenes nurses from all over the state of Michigan. This year’s Summit will equip more
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2018 Michigan Nursing Summit: Taking Health Care Upstream
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 more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Improving Access to Care, Promoting Nursing Leadership, Locations: Michigan,
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Campaign Announces Innovations Fund Award Winners
The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action is excited to announce nine of its state-based Action Coalitions have each been selected to receive up to $25,000 for innovative ideas to advance nursing and build a Culture of Health. The winners were chosen based on their more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Collecting Workforce Data, Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration, Increasing Diversity in Nursing, Promoting Nursing Leadership, Transforming Nursing Education, Locations: Colorado, Massachusetts, Michigan, National, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, West Virginia,
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The Best Partners May Be Right in Your Own Backyard
For the past few years, The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action’s state-based Action Coalitions have been partnering with local groups to build a Culture of Health in their communities. As we know, the most effective way to do this usually involves working more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Locations: Michigan, New Jersey,
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How Nurses Can Help Create Age-Friendly Communities
”The AARP Network of age-friendly communities is an affiliate of the world health organization’s global network of age-friendly cities and communities, an international effort launched in 2006 to help cities prepare for their own and the world’s growing population more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Improving Access to Care, Locations: Michigan,
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2017 Michigan Nursing Summit Convenes Nurses Statewide
The 2017 Michigan Nursing Summit will be held October 11-13, 2017 at Crystal Mountain in Thompsonville, MI. The Michigan Center for Nursing’s Michigan Nursing Summit is an annual event that convenes nurses from all over the state of Michigan. This year’s Summit more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Promoting Nursing Leadership, Locations: Michigan,
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Clinical Placements & Preceptorships Webinar
Clinical Placements & Preceptorships, Undergraduate Nursing Programs in Michigan, 2015 Presented by Laurence Rosen, PhD and Michelle Harmon, RN, PhD This webinar features research results from the Michigan Nursing Action Coalition, Education Team Download more
Issues: Collecting Workforce Data, Transforming Nursing Education, Locations: Michigan,
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Two Midwest States Now Have More Access to Care
Michigan and Ohio residents will have more options for finding healthcare in 2017 and beyond after both states recently modernized practice laws for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs). On Monday, January 9, Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan signed the bill more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Improving Access to Care, Locations: Michigan, Ohio,
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Michigan Updates Law, Improves Health Care Options
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has signed a bill that will increase the number of health care providers residents of that state can turn to. The new law expands some nurses’ rights to practice and prescribe. That means that advanced practice registered nurses more
Issues: Improving Access to Care, Locations: Michigan,
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Tips, Tools From a Nurse Can Help Patients Stop Smoking
The rate at which patients were able to stop smoking doubled when they conferred with a nurse before leaving for home, finds a new study. Nurses participated in one-hour trainings on how to help people quit smoking, according to the study written by Sonia Duffy, more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Locations: Michigan,
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Michigan Nursing Summit Convenes Hundreds to Discuss Creating a Culture of Health
The Michigan Center for Nursing, a program of the Michigan Health Council (MHC), will be hosting the annual Michigan Nursing Summit on September 29-30 at Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort in Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Last year, about 200 nurses, nursing educators, nursing more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration, Improving Access to Care, Increasing Diversity in Nursing, Transforming Nursing Education, Locations: Michigan,
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Registration Open for the 2016 Michigan Nursing Summit
The Michigan Center for Nursing’s 2016 nursing summit will be held September 29-30, 2016 at the Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort in Mount Pleasant, MI. The purpose of this years summit, themed A Culture of Health, is to increase nurses’ understanding of factors that more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration, Improving Access to Care, Increasing Diversity in Nursing, Promoting Nursing Leadership, Transforming Nursing Education, Locations: Michigan,
Our Leaders
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Debbie Edokpolo, MSW
Director of Health Equity and Social Justice
Michigan Primary Care Association