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ANA, Rita Wilson Partner to Promote Importance of Flu Shot

Sep 21, 2020

The American Nurses Association is teaming with actress Rita Wilson to urge 200 million Americans to get their flu shots — soon. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), getting the annual flu vaccine is more important than ever. That’s why more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities
Strategies to Cultivate Positive Emotions May Prove Useful to Nurses

Sep 17, 2020

Science has long said that smiling – even when you don’t feel like it — can trick your brain into feeling happy. A new study by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) underscores that premise and offers strategies for nurses and other health care more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities
A Season of Contact Tracing Highlights School Nurses’ Influence Beyond School Walls

Sep 10, 2020

Before 2020, Eileen Gavin, MSN, FNP-BC, NCSN, who co-leads a more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership
Collective Destiny: “We Must Agree on What Is Needed”

Sep 08, 2020

“The failures of public policy and imagination have been stalking us for years, creating haves and have-nots,” wrote Richard Besser, MD, in an opinion piece earlier this year when COVID-19 had just begun appearing in the U.S. That searing observation was the essence of a more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities
Congratulations 2018 Nursing Innovation Fund Winners

Aug 19, 2020

Completed Projects Showed Collaboration, Creativity The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action congratulates for completion of projects its state-based Action Coalitions competitively selected in 2018 to receive funding for innovative ideas to build healthier more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Increasing Diversity in Nursing
Nurses Can Help Build New Coalitions to Fight the Pandemic

Aug 07, 2020

“Is anybody actually in charge here?” It’s a question far too many of us health care providers have been asking during this pandemic. It’s not a more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities
In Guest Editorial, Hassmiller Assesses COVID’s Effect on Nursing, Health Care

Aug 03, 2020

The pandemic has wrought change in every aspect of life, and laid bare the disparities in health care in the U.S. “The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the daily stresses of frontline nurses,” writes Susan B. Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, in a guest editorial in the more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities
Nursing Podcast Series Focuses on Refugee Healthcare

Aug 03, 2020

How do newly settled refugees and immigrants in Pennsylvania get health care? That’s a question the Pennsylvania Action Coalition – a state arm of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action — takes on in its podcast, At the Core of Care. Over two episodes, Refugee more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Pennsylvania