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Examples of Innovations to Build Healthy Communities
Oct 15, 2016
At the 3rd Annual Health Care Workforce Summit in September, representatives of a range of organizations across Massachusetts shared their innovative, expansive, and collaborative approaches to improve the health of their communities. Common themes were the importance of partnerships beyond healthcare, community engagement, addressing the social more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Massachusetts
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Building Healthy Communities Is Focus of Massachusetts Healthcare Workforce Summit
Oct 14, 2016
“Building healthy communities as a team sport” was the overarching message of the 3rd Annual Massachusetts Healthcare Workforce Summit. Nurses from all practice settings are partnering with “teammates” in mental and behavior health, social services, and business to improve health and healthcare across the Commonwealth. more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Massachusetts
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Study: Nurses’ Models of Care Match Culture of Health
Oct 14, 2016
Nurses are the health care professionals best positioned to contribute to a Culture of Health in their communities, says a study published in Nursing Outlook (there is a fee to download the study). “Innovative Nursing Care Models and Culture of Health: Early Evidence” more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Pennsylvania
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Breakthrough Leader in Nursing to Speak at White House-Hosted Conference
Oct 11, 2016
Monica R. McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN, assistant professor at the Family Health Care Nursing Department at the University of California, San Francisco, will speak—fast—in a lightning talk at the White House Frontiers Conference Thursday, October 13, in Pittsburgh. As a 2015 more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: California Pennsylvania
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(Updated) Post-Hurricane, Red Cross Calls for Volunteers
Oct 10, 2016
Update: As of October 15, the American Red Cross is no longer recruiting for volunteers in the hurricane-hit region. Hurricane Matthew, which flooded coastal communities in the Southeast and inland areas of North Carolina as well, has left thousands stranded and multiple more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: North Carolina
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Tips, Tools From a Nurse Can Help Patients Stop Smoking
Oct 07, 2016
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, PhD, RN, more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Michigan
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Charting Nursing’s Future: A Valuable Resource
Oct 06, 2016
Charting Nursing’s Future has been providing information on key policy issues for the past 10 years, and highlights the important role nurses play in building a Culture of Health. In its September 2016 issue, the American Journal of Nursing praised Charting Nursing’s more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National
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Nurse Turns Surplus Into Better Health
Oct 03, 2016
“Too much hunger, too much waste, too much food” sums up the intertwined problems that Jennifer M. Grenier MSN, RN-BC, is helping untangle. Working closely with community partners in Chicago, Grenier is seeing to it that good food is put to good use—and that the hungry get more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Illinois