At Height of COVID-19, Nurses Reported High Levels of Distress

Jun 25, 2020

The largest study in the United States to document the psychological impact among nurses, advanced practice providers, defined in this study as nurse practitioners and physician assistants, physicians, residents and fellows working on the front lines at the height of the more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data

‘Living Legend’ Addresses Health Disparities & Racial Injustice

Jun 17, 2020

“There’s no way you can extricate what’s been going on and the outcomes of the disease from the basic racism and social injustice and inequities that have existed in this country for so many years” Catherine Alicia Georges, EdD, RN, FAAN, tells Mike Ellison, a host of more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

Nurses Support to Family Caregivers Proves Critical

Jun 08, 2020

“Nurses Leading the Way to Better Support Family Caregivers,” is an article in the January 2020 issue of the Online Journal in Nursing (OJIN) that examines the considerable more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

Nurses Advance Health Equity and Well-Being for All

Jun 02, 2020

For more than a decade, the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action – an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – has striven to build a healthier America by ensuring that all people, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, age, gender more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

COVID-19 Nursing Home Residents Pose Special Challenges

May 27, 2020

Donna Russo, director of nursing at the New Jersey Firemen’s home, was featured recently on an AARP podcast, Take on Today: An Inside Look at Hospitals and Nursing Homes. Below, she shares more of her insights about COVID-19 on the nursing home residents, their families, more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

Hassmiller Co-Edits the First-Ever Book Addressing Advanced Practice Nurses and Global Leadership

May 22, 2020

Susan B. Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, senior advisor for nursing at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and director of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, along with Joyce Pulcini, PhD, RN, PNP-BC, FAAN, tenured professor and chair of the George more

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

Front Lines COVID-19 Response Plan Proposed

May 13, 2020

In a newly released report, the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) lay out a plan for the country to confidently return to work and school and estimates that Congress will need to appropriate more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities

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Building Coalitions to Promote Health Equity: A Toolkit for Action

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This webinar, which is part of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Learning Collaborative, reviews toolkit Building Coalitions to Promote Health Equity: A Toolkit for Action.  Presenters: Piri Ackerman-Barger, PhD, RN, CNE, FAAN, Associate more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities HBCU Learning Collaborative Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Location: National