Encore Performance: Retired Nurses Find Fulfillment Through Volunteering

Sep 20, 2018

Charting Nursing’s Future profiles four retired nurses who are staying active and continuing to contribute to their communities through volunteer work. Three are making sure that people with economic, social or emotional challenges gain access to the supports they need to build more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

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A School Nurse in 2018

Sep 11, 2018

As a new academic year begins, school nurses are making headlines for their many and varied roles caring for America’s children. Recent stories have highlighted how the job has changed significantly from the days of the first school nurse, hired in the early 1900s to reduce more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National

2018 Michigan Nursing Summit: Taking Health Care Upstream

Sep 06, 2018

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 factors, and more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Michigan

Don’t Let Myths About HIPAA Get in the Way of Good Care

Sep 06, 2018

Approximately 40 million family caregivers assume responsibility for the health of loved ones. They bring patients to hospital emergency rooms, drive patients between providers and pharmacies, and oversee at-home care. In many cases, they manage complex medication regimens, more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

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What Nurses Do

Aug 30, 2018

My work on Charting Nursing’s Future brings me into contact with nurses crunching workforce data, monitoring disease outbreaks, and saving lives in the aftermath of natural disasters—activities that all occur outside the walls of traditional health care settings. And in the more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National

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Nurse Brings Big Picture Mindset to School Board

Aug 24, 2018

Tracey Smith, DNP, PHCNS-BC, MS, is associate professor of family and community medicine and director of population health and community outreach at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. She is vice more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Illinois National

Speak Up and Speak Out, Says Nurse Leader

Aug 15, 2018

This is the 15th in a series of profiles of Campaign leaders talking about their connections to the nursing or health care profession and their interests in healthier communities. Frances (Fran) Keeler, MSN, RN, a 2014 Breakthrough Leader in Nursing, has more than 38 more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Vermont

Pennsylvania Convening Focuses on Achieving Excellence in Care for All

Aug 13, 2018

    “Pennsylvania’s Healthcare Mosaic 2018 is an opportunity to join forces with the Pennsylvania Action Coalition in any capacity to act, lead, and advance a more equitable world of health and health care for some of the most vulnerable and least likely more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Pennsylvania