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Advancing Nursing Education, Advancing Health: New video encourages registered nurses to earn a BSN to better respond to a changing health care system
Jan 29, 2016
Nursing skills at the baccalaureate level are in high demand. A new video from the Washington Center for Nursing, “Advancing Nursing Education, Advancing Health,” shows why earning a BSN is key for nurses to help transform the health care system, and why investing in a higher degree is a smart career decision. In the video, nurses will hear the employer more
Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: Washington
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Wisconsin Creates Organization Recognition Program for Health Systems
Jan 15, 2016
Organizations that Lead by Example to Advance Degrees (LEAD) are being recognized for these efforts in a unique program underway in Wisconsin. The LEAD recognition program was launched by the Wisconsin Center for Nursing (WCN), co-lead for the Action Coalition. It is designed to recognize organizations who are paving the way to advance levels of nursing more
Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Wisconsin
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Huge Interest in IOM’s Future of Nursing Report Shows in Record Number of Downloads
Jan 05, 2016
Reflecting the fact that nurses play a critical role in improving America’s health and health care system, the Institute of Medicine’s Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report remains the IOM’s most downloaded report since its release in 2010. As of December 2015, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) records 129,874 downloads of Future more
Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National
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Preparing the Nursing Workforce to Transform Healthcare
Oct 25, 2015
National & State Perspectives, Initiatives are Focus of MA Workforce Summit More than 150 nurses and leaders from across the healthcare spectrum attended the 2nd Annual Massachusetts Healthcare Workforce Summit and shared updates on national and statewide progress in developing a more highly educated and diverse nursing workforce, including data 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: Massachusetts
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The Future of Nursing Is Here: Campaign Marks Five Years of Progress
Oct 21, 2015
Five years ago, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health made an urgent case for transforming nursing to bring better health to more Americans. Soon after, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) joined forces to create the Future of Nursing:Campaign for Action, with the goal of making the more
Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National
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IOM Evaluation Report Will Reflect Research, Perspectives From Many
Oct 21, 2015
Speaking in July to the IOM evaluation committee for the IOM Evaluation Report about models of academic progression are Jenny Landen, RN, MSN, FNP-BC, dean of the School of Fitness Education, School of Health, Math, more
Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National
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Champions of Nursing: Aetna and Cigna
Oct 21, 2015
One hardly needs the meaning of CEO, CFO, or COO spelled out. But CNO? It’s relatively new, say the chief nursing officers at Aetna and Cigna, who are helping define the C-suite job at two of the largest health care delivery organizations in the world. As chief nursing officers, Aetna’s Susan Kosman, RN, DNP, and Cigna’s Mary Picerno, RN, are among more
Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National
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W. Virginia-RWJF Awards Public Health Nurse Leader Grant
Sep 09, 2015
The Future of Nursing West Virginia Action Coalition is pleased to announce that Angela Gray, BSN, RN, nursing director of the Berkeley County Health Department in Martinsburg, West Virginia, is one of only 25 nurses from across the country selected as a Public Health Nurse more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: West Virginia