Youth Suicide: How a Nurse-Designed Intervention May Be Saving Lives

Feb 11, 2020

A nurse-designed mental health intervention can improve the well-being of America’s youth. It may even save lives. Creating Opportunities for Personal Empowerment (COPE) gets cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) training to children, teens, and young adults in community, more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

Mayor to proclaim May 6-12 Nurses Week in the City of Chattanooga

Jan 31, 2020

National Nurses Week is celebrated annually from May 6 through May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale is recognized as the founder of modern nursing. This year is the 200th birthday of Florence Nightingale declaring “The Year of the Nurse”. To more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Tennessee

2020: Celebrating the Year of the Nurse and Midwife

Jan 22, 2020

Nurses make up the largest health care profession, not only in the United States but in the entire world. For this reason in part, the World Health Organization more

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

Hospital Bridges the Gap by Going Into the Community—Strategically

Jan 17, 2020

It is well known that nurses offer diagnoses, treatments, compassion, and care where they work and where they live. What is less known is that, increasingly, nurses are creating and participating in large-scale, systemic efforts to take on health equity by addressing needs before they become illnesses. more

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

Join a RWJF Leadership Program in 2020

Jan 14, 2020

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has long trained tomorrow’s leaders through its four leadership development programs: Clinical Scholars; Culture of Health Leaders; Health Policy Research Scholars; and Interdisciplinary Research Leaders. It is now accepting applications more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

Well-Being Champion = Purpose Prize Winner

Dec 16, 2019

Recently I was pleased to see a familiar name on the list of AARP Purpose Prize winners for 2019-2020. That name was Paul Leon, who has developed innovative solutions to more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

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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