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Issue   Building Healthier Communities

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  1. Nurses involved in 2019 Culture of Health Prize Winning Community

    Nov 19, 2019

    The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation selected five communities to receive the 2019 RWJF Culture of Health Prize. The communities – Broward County, Fla; Greenville County, S.C.; Gonzales, Calif.; Lake County, Colo; and Sitka, Alaska – came together around a shared commitment more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities

  2. RWJF Health Policy Fellow Creating Pipeline of Health Policy Leaders

    Nov 15, 2019

    Sharron Crowder, PhD, RN, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Health Policy Fellow and clinical associate professor at Indiana University School of Nursing, taught a health policy course for graduate nursing students in 2013 at the request of her dean, little realizing more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

  3. National

    Creating Healthier Communities: Native American Nursing Students’ Experiences and the Role of Mentoring

    Webinar

    In celebration of National Native American Heritage month, November, please join us for a webinar on how to create healthier communities through strategies to support Native American nurses. Increasing the number of Native Americans in the nursing workforce is essential for improving the health of this population, and yet the number of Native American RN more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Increasing Diversity in Nursing Location: National

  4. Nurse Scientist Highlights Needs of Female Service Members

    Nov 11, 2019

    Nurse Lori Trego (far right) founded the Military Women’s Health Research Interest Group in 2010. The group is sponsored by the TriService Nursing Research Program and composed of nurse scientists. Photo courtesy of more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care

  5. Nurses Central to Combining Health Care with Housing

    Nov 06, 2019

    Kristi Poehlmann, BSN, RN, consults with SASH participant, Marie Salter, about her lung health. Regular check-ins with Kristi have helped Marie avoid hospitalization for pneumonia.Photo: Shem Roose more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

  6. Nurses Play Critical Role in Supporting Family Caregivers

    Nov 01, 2019

    Family caregivers are engaging in care that is intense and complex, with more than 20 million performing medical–nursing tasks. With that in mind, Susan C. Reinhard, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Heather M. Young, PhD, RN, FAAN, write in the November issue of the American Journal more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities

  7. The Power of Home

    Oct 29, 2019

    CAPABLE improves the health of older adults by helping them function better in their home environments. Listening to clients and observing how they live are central to the model. Photo credit:  Shelly Au more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Colorado

  8. Nurse Innovator Honored as 1 of 5 Recipients of 24th Heinz Awards

    Sep 17, 2019

    Innovative thinking, persistence, courage, and compassion are among the reasons that five Americans have earned this year’s Heinz Awards, including nurse researcher Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN. Szanton, an alumna of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Nurse more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

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