On June 3 and 4, 2021, the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action assembled key opinion leaders, experts, and change makers across the fields of health care, nursing and health equity. The goal: Build actions plans to operationalize the National Academy of Medicine’s Future of Nursing 2020 2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity report. Below are the action plans related to Recommendation #9.

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Recommendation #9: Building the Evidence Base
The National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Health Resources and  Services Administration, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Administration for Children and Families, the Administration for Community Living, and private associations and foundations should convene representatives from nursing, public health, and health care to develop and support a research agenda and evidence base describing the impact of nursing interventions, including multisector collaboration, on social determinants of health, environmental health, health equity, and nurses’ health and well being.

9.1 Develop mechanisms for proposing, evaluating, and scaling evidence based practice models that leverage collaboration

9.2 Identify effective multisector team approaches to improving health equity and addressing social needs and SDOH

9.3 Use evidence based approaches to Increase number and diversity of students from disadvantaged groups

9.4 Determine evidence based education strategies for preparing nurses to eliminate structural racism and implicit bias to strengthen culturally competent care.

9.5 Use technology to identify and integrate health and social data to improve nurses capacity for support