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Nurses as Partners in Redesigning Health Care
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April 25, 2016 When nurses lead, from the boardroom to the bedside, patient outcomes are better. That’s why two of the recommendations in the IOM’s 2010 report on the future of nursing focus on leadership: nurses need to be decision-makers in designing health systems and key collaborators on health care teams. Since the report’s release, nurse more
Issues: Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National
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What Am I Doing to Help Build a Healthier America?
Apr 10, 2016
In honor of National Public Health Week 2016, Breakthrough Leader in Nursing Jake Creviston, MN, RN, PMHNP, DNP, offers some reflections on the role of nurses in public health and how he is working to build a healthier America. Nursing’s leadership on boards is crucial to public health. Nursing leadership is associated with positive patient outcomes more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National Oregon
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SYNC—An Interprofessional Leadership Program
Apr 04, 2016
The Virginia Action Coalition (through its parent organization, the Virginia Nurses Foundation) has partnered with the Medical Society of Virginia and the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association to develop and launch SYNC, a new learning institute designed to teach healthcare teams strategies to better serve their communities, lead their more
Issues: Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Location: Virginia
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Latest IOM Report Urges Greater Collaboration, Diversity
Feb 25, 2016
In a new report, the Institute of Medicine cites “significant progress” made over the last five years in implementing its 2010 recommendations about the future of nursing, while highlighting new and remaining challenges. Woven throughout the updated recommendations is a common thread: the need for the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action to expand its more
Issues: Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Increasing Diversity in Nursing Location: National
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Champions of Nursing
Feb 12, 2016
The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action Summit 2015, the national conference that took place in Washington, D.C., December 9–10, could not have happened were it not for the generosity of five sponsors who understand how important a strong nursing field is to America’s health. Thanks to these leaders: Aetna Aetna wants to build a better health care 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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Four Cities, One Goal: Define a Culture of Health in Nebraska
Feb 09, 2016
Early this year, Nebraska produced Defining and Transforming a Culture of Health in Nebraska, a report that crystalizes the inspiration coming out of two-day meetings held at one time in four cities late last year. Coordinating the event were the Nebraska Action Coalition, the Nebraska Assembly of Nursing Deans and Directors, the Nebraska Nurses Association, more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Nebraska
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Huge Interest in IOM’s Future of Nursing Report Shows in Record Number of Downloads
Jan 05, 2016
Reflecting the fact that nurses play a critical role in improving America’s health and health care system, the Institute of Medicine’s Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report remains the IOM’s most downloaded report since its release in 2010. As of December 2015, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) records 129,874 downloads of Future more
Issues: 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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Preparing the Nursing Workforce to Transform Healthcare
Oct 25, 2015
National & State Perspectives, Initiatives are Focus of MA Workforce Summit More than 150 nurses and leaders from across the healthcare spectrum attended the 2nd Annual Massachusetts Healthcare Workforce Summit and shared updates on national and statewide progress in developing a more highly educated and diverse nursing workforce, including data 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: Massachusetts