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For All You Did in 2019, Thank You!

Dec 10, 2019

At the start of 2019, we were anticipating great progress and big news on many fronts. Thanks to you, the last 12 months have lived up to those hopes. Even as we continue advancing on our mission to strengthen our profession, we are growing to embrace a more more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National

AARP, RWJF Leaders Write About Combined Histories, Successes

Nov 22, 2019

When the nation’s largest philanthropy devoted to improving health and health care connected with the nation’s largest consumer membership organization, good things were bound 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

RWJF Health Policy Fellow Creating Pipeline of Health Policy Leaders

Nov 15, 2019

Sharron Crowder, PhD, RN, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Health Policy Fellow and clinical associate professor at Indiana University School of Nursing, taught a health policy course for graduate nursing students in 2013 at the request of her dean, little realizing more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

Nurses Central to Combining Health Care with Housing

Nov 06, 2019

Kristi Poehlmann, BSN, RN, consults with SASH participant, Marie Salter, about her lung health. Regular check-ins with Kristi have helped Marie avoid hospitalization for pneumonia. Photo: Shem Roose more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

The Power of Home

Oct 29, 2019

CAPABLE improves the health of older adults by helping them function better in their home environments. Listening to clients and observing how they live are central to the model. Photo credit:  Shelly Au more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Colorado

Recognizing American Academy of Nursing Fellows and Living Legends

Oct 22, 2019

The American Academy of Nursing (AAN) this week inducts  its 2019 fellows, and honors five fellows as Living Legends at its Transforming Health Driving Policy Conference, in Washington D.C. The Center to Champion Nursing in America, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership

Baccalaureate Degrees on Rise, Latest Figures Show

Oct 14, 2019

Since its beginning in 2010, The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action has tracked progress made by our state-based Action Coalitions, nurses, and supporters, as we continue to more

Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership

Nurse Innovator Honored as 1 of 5 Recipients of 24th Heinz Awards

Sep 17, 2019

Innovative thinking, persistence, courage, and compassion are among the reasons that five Americans have earned this year’s Heinz Awards, including nurse researcher Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN. Szanton, an alumna of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Nurse more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership