“Everyone Can Play a Role” in Advancing Health Equity

Dec 11, 2023

Attendees at the summit. How can we make real progress on critical health care priorities like advancing health equity, diversifying the nursing workforce, mitigating the workforce crisis through the recruitment and retention of nurses, and elevating the concept of more

Issues: Improving Health Equity Increasing Diversity in Nursing

Video: Nurses and Health Equity

Oct 05, 2023

https://youtu.be/T7Xbyqjbnwg The National Academy of Medicine’s Future of Nursing 2020—2023 report, published amid the COVID-19 pandemic, is subtitled, Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity. As the largest and most trusted segment of the health care workforce, nurses more

Issues: Improving Health Equity

What We Learn from Successful School Mental Health Programs

Aug 08, 2022

As the calendar flips to August, America’s schools are preparing for a new academic year, the fourth one impacted by COVID-19. School nurses are the front lines of public health and primary care, and the Campaign is pleased to share two blogs from a global more

Issues: Improving Health Equity

A Delaware School District Program Provides Early Exposure to Nursing

Aug 04, 2022

As its 2021 Nursing Innovations Fund project, Delaware’s Brandywine School District (BSD) piloted an afterschool program, BSD’s Lifesavers, to increase awareness of nursing careers among students from underrepresented communities. Working with key stakeholders, project staff more

Issues: Improving Health Equity Increasing Diversity in Nursing Location: Delaware

The Role of School Health in Addressing Health Inequities

Aug 01, 2022

As the calendar flips to August, America’s schools are preparing for a new academic year, the fourth one impacted by COVID-19. School nurses are the front lines of public health and primary care, and the Campaign is pleased to share two blogs from a global school nurse more

Issues: Improving Health Equity

Nursing Innovations Funds Stimulate a Network of Partnerships for Health Equity

Jun 06, 2022

When nurses are empowered to create health equity in their communities, they bring together a network like nobody else can. The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has demonstrated this more

Issues: Improving Health Equity Location: Georgia Indiana Kentucky Massachusetts Nebraska North Carolina Pennsylvania Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

Purpose Prize Celebrates Changemakers on December 15th

Dec 03, 2021

A nurse from Maryland is one of five winners of this year’s AARP Purpose Prize Award for people age 50+ who are giving back, solving problems, and changing lives. They will all be celebrated at a virtual awards show on Wednesday, December 15th which the public is invited more

Issues: Improving Health Equity Increasing Diversity in Nursing Location: Maryland

Campaign Names Winners of 2021 Nursing Innovations Fund Award

Oct 07, 2021

The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), has announced that six nurse-led projects will receive Nursing Innovations Fund awards of up to $25,000 each. The projects submitted by the more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Health Equity Location: Delaware Kentucky Montana Pennsylvania Utah West Virginia