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Our Top 8 Stories for 2018

Dec 27, 2018

From states’ efforts to make nurse-led care more accessible to all to the Duchess of Cambridge taking up nursing’s mantle, 2018 was a big year in health care and nursing, and 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: National

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Mayor Jean Stothert: A First for Omaha

Dec 21, 2018

More and more women are serving in elected office, and not surprisingly, some of them are nurses or former nurses. How have they made the transition from clinical practice to the policy arena? How has their nursing perspective informed their policymaking? We asked these more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

A Dashboard of One’s Own: Four States Track Their Successes

Dec 18, 2018

  Since the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action began, it has measured the progress that nursing has made across 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: Hawaii Nebraska Texas Wisconsin

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Not in our Neighborhood: Emergency Nurses Respond to Human Trafficking

Nov 15, 2018

Can a blanket question about personal safety be effective in identifying cases of human trafficking or domestic violence? Renea Wilson, MSN, RN, CEN, director of the emergency department (ED) at Stormont Vail Hospital in Topeka, Kan., didn’t think so. more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

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Nurses (and a Nurse Champion) Win Congressional Seats in Mid-Term Election

Nov 08, 2018

At least one nurse and a well-known champion of the nursing profession won congressional seats in Tuesday’s election, while two additional nurse House members were re-elected, and one nurse left office. Here’s the run-down on nurses in the 116th Congress: U.S. Rep. more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

Center to Champion Nursing in America, RWJF to Honor Colleagues

Oct 29, 2018

The Center to Champion Nursing in America, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will join RWJF on Friday to co-host a reception at the American Academy of Nursing’s annual policy conference, in Washington D.C. This year’s meeting more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership

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Retirement Opportunities That Allow Nurses to “Do More”

Sep 25, 2018

When Ellen Elpern, MSN, RN, retired, she was eager to invest more time and energy in her profession. She also wanted to maintain a connection to the medical center where she spent almost 40 years providing inpatient care. But she soon discovered that few volunteer positions are more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National