The National Academy of Medicine is About to Release a New Future of Nursing Report Here’s How It Was Made

May 03, 2021

Medical error, clinician burnout, unconscious bias — the National Academy of Medicine has taken on some of the health care system’s most serious and contentious issues through its unique consensus reports model. On May 11, my colleagues at NAM will release another more

Issues: Improving Health Equity

Improving the Nation’s Health Equity through a More Diverse Nursing Workforce

Apr 12, 2021

“Nursing…has a responsibility to society to prepare a health care workforce that is truly going to serve and be able to be truly take care of everyone in our growing diverse society. That is embedded in our ethical code.” – Sheldon Fields, PhD, RN, FAAN (March 30, more

Issues: Improving Health Equity

As Witnesses to Inequity, Nurses Can Be Powerful Advocates

Mar 15, 2021

More than 1,200 nurses and nurse champions from every state, Washington D.C. and a dozen countries, gathered online Feb. 24 to honor nurses’ contributions during the pandemic, recognize 10 years of nursing progress by the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action and others, more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Improving Health Equity Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership

Looking back to look forward

Feb 23, 2021

Nurses, nurse leaders, nurse champions and allies from across the country will virtually gather Wednesday to reflect on the profession’s achievements since the release of the 2010 Institute of Medicine report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. More more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Improving Health Equity Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education

Report: Racial Equity Benefits Society Economically Too

Feb 08, 2021

Racial equity is an integral part of social justice—and, as an updated report makes clear, it is also fundamentally important to the country’s economic growth. In “The Business Case for Racial Equity: A Strategy for Growth,” the W.K. Kellogg Foundation finds that more

Issues: Improving Health Equity

How to put people first in the new year

Jan 25, 2021

If 2020 was a calamity, 2021 has the makings of a year of hope. The most visible signs of that hope are the vaccines currently being received by nurses, physicians, and other frontline workers across the country. For our overtaxed care providers, this is a much-needed more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Health Equity

Co-chairs Bring Complementary Strengths to Equity Initiative

Jan 19, 2021

From opposite sides of the country, Carmen Alvarez, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, and Eric J. Williams, DNP, RN, FAAN, bring more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Health Equity Increasing Diversity in Nursing