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Campaign Launches COACH Program To Support Action Coalitions

Jul 03, 2017

What do a family nurse practitioner, a nurse scientist, and a school nurse overseeing the health of 12,000 students have in common? They’re all newly trained Campaign for Action COACHes, which stands for Campaign Outreach Advocates for a Culture of Health. This group of 17 more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

Welcome to Boise

Jun 23, 2017

Welcome to Boise, Idaho, and to Boise State University, for one of three Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action 2017 workshops focusing on continued work to implement the Institute of Medicine recommendations, and to build a Culture of Health in communities across the nation. The 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: Idaho

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Mentoring Minority Students: A Pillar for Successful Leadership

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The first in a series highlighting members of the Campaign for Action Diversity Steering Committee will feature the work of the National Black Nurses Association (NBNA). The 46-year-old non-profit represents 150,000 African American registered nurses, licensed more

Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

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If You Had a Say in Your Nursing Schedule…

Jun 22, 2017

If nurses could be more involved in the creation of their work schedules, would you ultimately have a more engaged, satisfied, and alert nursing workforce? That’s a question posed by McKnight’s Long-Term Care News in a story headlined “Is Nurse Fatigue Leading to an more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

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Proud Family History–and Impulse–Led Him to Nursing

Jun 13, 2017

This is the fourth in a series of profiles of leaders who are part of the Campaign talking about their connections to the nursing or health care profession and their interests in healthier communities. Jake Creviston, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC, maintains a practice at an integrative more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

Five Reasons Our Video Series Can Support Family Caregivers — and the Nurses Who Work With Them

Jun 08, 2017

Since AARP started partnering with the Department of Veterans Affairs beginning last year to produce a series of 10 videos (five in English, five in Spanish) through the Home Alone Alliance, which I first wrote about here, we’ve only gotten more excited about the more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

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The Mentoring Door Goes Both Ways—Open It

May 25, 2017

Danielle Howa Pendergrass, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC, gets reflective this time of year as graduation ceremonies bloom on college lawns across the country. Reflective, and glad: As she celebrates tomorrow’s nurses, Pendergrass says, what comes to mind especially is the importance of more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

"Most Proud When I Pay It Forward," Says Nurse Leader

May 17, 2017

This is the third in a series of profiles of leaders who are part of the Campaign talking about their connections to the nursing or health care profession and their interests in healthier communities. Maria Torchia LoGrippo, PhD, MSN, RN, is assistant professor at Rutgers more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: New Jersey