Many States, One License: The Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact Is Now Live

May 14, 2018

As the 21st century has progressed, it’s become increasingly apparent that allowing geographical boundaries to limit health care professionals’ reach is not good for consumers or the people providing care. The average American now moves approximately 11 times in a lifetime; the days of settling and staying in one place are all but gone. more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Promoting Nursing Leadership

Nurses Remain Largely Invisible in the Media

May 08, 2018

A 1998 study of nurses’ voices in the media found that nurses were “largely invisible” in leading print publications. Twenty years later, little has changed. That’s the sobering conclusion of The Woodhull Study Revisited: Nurses’ Representation in Health News more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

Nurses Push to Bring Research Back Into the Gun Violence Debate

Apr 24, 2018

Nurses are on the front lines of gun violence, and it’s not just in the emergency room. For the country’s estimated more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

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Did Somebody Say Nurses Week Video Contest?

Apr 12, 2018

Nurses Week is a few weeks away, May 6–12, and our friends at the “It Takes A Nurse” Facebook page are launching a video contest, with prizes! They want to highlight the unique ways nurses show their strengths—on or off the clock—whether through clinical care and more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

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Duchess of Cambridge Helps Launch New Global Nursing Campaign

Mar 05, 2018

Nursing Now, a three-year campaign to raise the status and profile of nurses globally, launched on Feb. 27 in more than 30 countries, including England where the Duchess of Cambridge pledged support and appreciation to nurses “This campaign means a lot to me more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

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Duchess of Cambridge to Kick Off Launch of Global Nursing Campaign

Feb 23, 2018

Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, will participate on Feb. 27 in a launch event of  Nursing Now, a new global campaign to strengthen the nursing profession. more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

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From One Coast to Another, Nurse Brings Health to Neighborhoods In Need

Feb 06, 2018

When asked where she grew up, Gloria McNeal responds with a mere ZIP code. But don’t expect to hear 90210, or any other such posh digits. “One-nine-one-two-three,” she says, “and that is a ZIP code you didn’t want to come from.” It may not have been her (or more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: California National Pennsylvania

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A Nurse Manager Who Is Growing the Nursing Profession

Feb 01, 2018

This is the tenth 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. Dan Lose, DNP, RN, CNML is a nurse manager and leader at the University of more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Iowa National