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  1. Help Wanted: Nurse Mentors for a More Diverse Nurse Workforce

    Apr 11, 2023

    The AARP Center for Health Equity through NursingSM (A-CHEN) is seeking nurses, working or retired, to mentor nursing students from underrepresented communities. A mentor is defined as a wise and trusted counselor or teacher, a tutor, advisor, or coach. Mentors can also more

    Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing

  2. Maps Illustrate a Decade of Progress in Nursing Education

    Mar 22, 2023

    From its earliest days, the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has worked to implement recommendations in the 2010 Institute of Medicine report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, more

  3. Video: Medicare Savings Programs Could Be Helping More Older Adults

    Mar 15, 2023

    A new AARP Policy Now video explores why 1.4 million eligible low-income Medicare beneficiaries are not enrolled in state level programs that can save them at least $1,900 a year in health care costs. Under Medicare Savings Programs (MSPs), state Medicaid agencies pay more

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Our primary and secondary dashboard indicators get updated twice per year and were last updated in September 2021.

  1. 2025 Nursing Innovations Fund Frequently Asked Questions

    Feb 17, 2025

    Below are answers to frequently asked questions. We will continue to update this document as questions arise. Please submit new questions to NursingInnovations@aarp.org.  Application Questions | Healthy Work Environment QuestionsProgram Questions | Budget Questions | Resources Application Questions  Who is eligible to apply?  We more

  2. Dashboard

    Jan 04, 2024

    In 2024, the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action sharpened the focus of its dashboard to two main areas of work: improving consumer access to care and diversifying nursing at all levels so it reflects the U.S. population. The dashboard is a series of graphs and charts the Campaign uses to evaluate its efforts to implement recommendations from the more

  3. Resources to Help National Nursing Organizations Create A Shared Agenda: Health Equity

    Apr 21, 2023

    The first recommendation in the 2021 Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity report is “Creating a Shared Agenda.” The recommendation calls for national nursing organizations to initiate work to develop a shared agenda for addressing social determinants of health and achieving health equity.  The Campaign for Action more

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  1. Oct 31, 2023

    Turning Commitments into Action

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  2. May 10, 2023

    Shared Agenda to Achieve Health Equity

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    Teaching Clinical Judgement Through the use of Case Studies

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