Leaders Learn Tips for Strengthening Nursing School Mentorship Programs

Mar 07, 2025

Mentoring for Success with Schools of Nursing workshop at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Md., on Tuesday, September 10, 2024. Photo: Lexey Swall. Nursing leaders participating in a workshop learned how to strengthen school mentorship programs to improve graduation and more

Campaign for Action Launches Award Program to Recognize Equity-Minded Nurses

Jul 17, 2023

The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is pleased to announce it is accepting applications for a new award program, co-sponsored by nursing organizations, that will recognize nurses who are more

Calls to Action for Advancing Health Equity

Dec 15, 2022

(left to right) Edna Kane Williams , Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, AARP and Aisha K. Mix, DNP, MPH, RN, FAAN, Rear Admiral,Assistant Surgeon General Chief Nurse Officer, U.S. Public Health Service  at the  AARP Health Equity Summit on more

Courageous Careers: Nurse Leaders Talk About “Failing Forward”

Nov 04, 2022

Jennie Chin Hansen, MS, RN, FAAN, vice chair of the Institute for Nursing Leadership National Advisory Council, moderated a question-and-answer session with presenters at the American Academy of Nursing’s 2022 Health Policy Conference. Photo credit: American Academy of more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership

Advancing Health Equity: The Rise of Equity-Minded Nurses

Sep 26, 2022

In the wake of a national inflection point after the highly publicized killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery in 2020, nurses have become even more activated to leverage the potential of the nursing profession to advance health equity. In May 2021, the more

Dinner Theater: An Innovative Approach to Reducing Suicide Among Kentucky Farmers

Jul 11, 2022

What kind of initiative brings together a beef council, a local theater group, and a state’s largest university? A Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action-supported program where nurses take on the problem of suicide in innovative ways. The Campaign is an initiative of AARP more

Location: Kentucky

Wisconsin Nurses Lead in Disaster Preparedness That Leaves No One Behind

Jul 05, 2022

In principle, a novel pathogen like COVID-19 should affect everyone equally. But very early in the pandemic, it became clear that this was not the case. Once the disease was established in the United States, Black and Native American communities were hit especially hard more

Location: Wisconsin

To Achieve Health Equity, Build a “Coalition of Coalitions”

Jun 16, 2022

Nurses’ efforts to achieve health equity are always stronger when they form partnerships with the community being served. That’s why matching funding and local partnerships were a requirement for every project supported by the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action’s more

Location: North Carolina