Diversifying the Nursing Workforce  to Achieve Health Equity

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Diversifying the Nursing Workforce  to Achieve Health Equity is the first in a series of virtual convenings with the goal of engaging a range of stakeholders, including consumer, business and health care organizations, on improving our nation’s health equity through a more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Increasing Diversity in Nursing

Our Most-Read Posts of 2020

Dec 23, 2020

As the Year of the Nurse and Midwife ends, we take time to look back on the Campaign’s most read stories of a tumultuous and dangerous year that nursing, and the rest of the world, will not soon forget. Most of the articles you’ll see below focus on the nursing more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

Community Support at the Tip of Your Fingers

Dec 17, 2020

Try as they might to be everything to everyone, and much as it might seem that they are, nurses and family caregivers cannot do it all. Especially now, as the pandemic surges and the holiday season approaches. This reality is made worse by today’s conundrum: While more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

Pushed to the Brink: Campaign Nurse Talks to NPR

Dec 09, 2020

NPR’s “All Things Considered” recently featured Danielle Howa Pendergrass, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC, in an interview whose title says it all: “Rural Nurses on What It’s Like To Fight Pandemic Within a Smaller Health Care System.” Pendergrass, who has helped fill the gap more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Utah

Public Health Nurse Supports College Athletes During COVID-19

Nov 24, 2020

There has never been a greater time than now to advocate for public health nursing, believes Jessica Beatriz Wagner, MPH, RN, associate director of prevention and health promotion at the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Sport Science Institute. That’s right, the more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

Modernization of California Nurse Practitioner Practice is Overdue: Implications for Nurse-Led Clinics

Nov 18, 2020

The Need The need for the expansion and growth of nurse-led clinics, to deliver primary and behavioral health services, is well supported by health data from national, state, and local sources. These data document the extent of primary care physician shortages in underserved more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Location: California

A Pathway to Promote Academic Success for American Indian/Alaska Native Nursing Student Mentoring Toolkit for Nursing Faculty- Leading Health Equity for Native American Nurses

Nov 12, 2020

Boozhoo Niijii (Hello my friend/Ojibwe),   November is Native American Heritage more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Increasing Diversity in Nursing

New AARP Tool Reports on Nursing Home Staff Health and Resources During COVID-19 Pandemic

Oct 27, 2020

In the early fall, nearly 25 percent of all U.S. nursing homes reported at least one confirmed COVID-19 case among residents, more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities