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Updated Campaign Dashboard Reflects Progress

Mar 06, 2017

Positive trends in nursing education, leadership, and scope of practice are just a few of the changes seen in the latest round of updates to the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action Dashboard. The Dashboard is a series of graphs and charts used to track efforts to implement more

Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National

Calling #NurseInnovators in Pennsylvania! Video Contest and Inaugural Fellowship Announced

Feb 23, 2017

Nurses are on the front lines of care and are acutely aware of the needs of their patients and their families. With their “ears” and “eyes” on the intricacies of our healthcare system, they are uniquely positioned to provide valuable insight in advancing patient safety and more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Pennsylvania

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Campaign Director Urges Students to Follow their Passion, Pursue Leadership Opportunities

Feb 23, 2017

Aspiring nurses must find and cultivate their passions, pursue leadership opportunities, and always remember to be caring and compassionate, according to Campaign Director and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Senior Adviser for Nursing Sue Hassmiller, PhD, RN, more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: District of Columbia National

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Nurses Improve Boards. BoardRoom Press Highlights Why

Feb 15, 2017

The Governance Institute, dedicated for decades to the oversight of health care organizations, has over three months offered three separate takes on the value of nurses serving as board members. The author sharing a byline on all three knows the subject well: Laurie Benson, more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

FONWV Receives AC Excellence Award

Feb 09, 2017

We are pleased and honored to announce that the Non-Profit Association inaugural Excellence Award was received by Future of Nursing WV on October 27th at the Annual Conference held in Huntington. Three awards were given. FONWV AC was the recipient for an organization with a more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: West Virginia

Oregon Offers Online Toolkit to Help Nurses Pursue Board Positions

Feb 07, 2017

By Jana Bitton, MPA, executive director, Oregon Center for Nursing There’s no question about it: Nurses need to lead. With the changing health care delivery environment, nurses are needed more than ever to be leaders not just in their profession, but also in their more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Oregon

Young Tennessee Nurse Follows Mentors in Learning to Lead

Jan 24, 2017

“An amazing woman with a compelling story,” is what the Tennessee Action Coalition ’s nursing leader Carole R. Myers, PhD, RN, says about Chisa Huffman, who last month received her master’s in nursing. The University of Tennessee-Knoxville graduate is also a shining more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Tennessee

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Take It From a Nurse, Nurse Tells Congress

Jan 19, 2017

In an opinion piece, a nurse begins his advice to the new Congress by citing his own credentials: Once again, Americans in 2016 ranked nurses as the country’s most trusted professionals. Writing on the Oxford University Press blog, Mark Lazenby, PhD, APRN, FAAN, associate more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National