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New Jersey Action Coalition, formed in 2011, has made a commitment to lead an initiative where embedding and engaging nurses within existing community projects will promote an outcome of healthier communities, well-being and equity for New Jersey citizens.
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New Jersey Action Coalition
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Simulating Poverty to Prepare Nurses for Community Practice
Nursing programs that more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Transforming Nursing Education, Locations: Missouri, National, New Jersey,
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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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Humanitarian Streak Led Her to Nursing—and to Help in Puerto Rico
Gina Miranda-Diaz, DNP, MPH, APHN-BC, is health officer and director of the health departments of West New York and Guttenberg, NJ, and an adjunct faculty at Rutgers University School of Nursing. Fluent in both English and Spanish, she informs the community about more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Locations: National, New Jersey,
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Nurses, Partners Help Kids Stay Safe on Wheels
Every August for the past five years, the West New York Health Department (WNYHD) and partner organizations hold Safe Kids Day—a community event to teach children in this New Jersey town of 51,000 that fun and safety can coincide. The event, part of a series of over more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Locations: National, New Jersey,
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New Book Offers Lessons on Retaining New Nurses in Post-Acute Care Settings
New Jersey Action Coalition leaders are among the authors of a new book on an innovative post-acute care residency program that offers a practical approach to transitioning and retaining new nurses in post-acute care settings. Published by Sigma Theta Tau more
Issues: Transforming Nursing Education, Locations: National, New Jersey,
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Nursing Journeys: She Started as a Candy Striper
Edna Cadmus, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, pictured here in 1976 on the day she graduated from nursing school, began her career as a nurse’s aide and licensed practical nurse before becoming a registered more
Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership, Locations: National, New Jersey,
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"Most Proud When I Pay It Forward," Says Nurse Leader
This is the third in a series of profiles of leaders who are part of the Campaign talking about their connections to the nursing or health care profession and their interests in healthier communities. Maria Torchia LoGrippo, PhD, MSN, RN, is assistant professor at more
Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership, Locations: New Jersey,
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Breakthrough Leader Named New York Academy of Medicine Fellow
Gina Miranda-Diaz, DNP, MPH, APHN-BC, a 2015 Culture of Health Breakthrough Leader in Nursing, in September was named a New York Academy of Medicine fellow. Miranda-Diaz was recognized for her “vast expertise in public health, policy, advocacy, governmental agencies, more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Locations: New Jersey,
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Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration in Health Care
Collaboration is the cornerstone of success in any team. Interprofessional collaboration is one of the trademarks of several highly successful health care innovations. When nurses collaborate as equals with other health care providers, patient outcomes and quality of more
Issues: Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration, Locations: New Jersey, New York,
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Mentoring Boosts People Involved, and Nursing As a Whole
If you ask a nurse manager, more
Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership, Transforming Nursing Education, Locations: Arkansas, National, New Jersey, Texas,
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NJAC Long-Term Care Residency Program Featured on Advance Health
The New Jersey Action Coalition’s (NJAC) co-lead Edna Cadmus, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, and the co-chair of the education pillar for NJAC, Susan Salmond, EdD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, recently wrote an article for Advance Healthcare Network about the development of the first long-term more
Issues: Transforming Nursing Education, Locations: New Jersey,
Our Leaders
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Edna Cadmus, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
Clinical Professor, Executive Director of the New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing
Rutgers University School of Nursing -
Jennifer Polakowski, MPA
Assistant Director of the New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing
Rutgers University School of Nursing