The Best Partners May Be Right in Your Own Backyard

May 11, 2018

For the past few years, The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action’s state-based Action Coalitions have been partnering with local groups to build a Culture of Health in their communities.  As we know, the most effective way to do this usually involves working with more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Michigan New Jersey

Nurses Remain Largely Invisible in the Media

May 08, 2018

A 1998 study of nurses’ voices in the media found that nurses were “largely invisible” in leading print publications. Twenty years later, little has changed. That’s the sobering conclusion of The Woodhull Study Revisited: Nurses’ Representation in Health News more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

Kentucky Clinic Opens Students’ Eyes

Apr 30, 2018

Sometimes transformative nursing education can take place in the community, with patients who earn very little, speak limited English, and may not read. Patients at the Kentucky Racing Health Services Center typically hail from Mexico and Guatemala. They come to the U.S. to work as contract employees and exercise, feed, and shampoo the racehorses at Louisville’s Churchill Downs racetrack. more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Transforming Nursing Education

Nurses Support the Health of Horse Racing’s Invisible Workers

Apr 30, 2018

The Kentucky Derby calls forth images of giant racehorses, garlands of red roses, and fans wearing elaborate hats and sipping mint juleps. But behind the track’s public face are low-wage workers who labor in the backstretch, near the stables. more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Transforming Nursing Education

National

Humanitarian Streak Led Her to Nursing—and to Help in Puerto Rico

Apr 27, 2018

Gina Miranda-Diaz, DNP, MPH, APHN-BC, is health officer and director of the health departments of West New York and Guttenberg, NJ, and an adjunct faculty at Rutgers University School of Nursing. Fluent in both English and Spanish, she informs the community about culturally more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National New Jersey

Virginia Increases Access to Care for Consumers

Apr 25, 2018

Virginia consumers may have more access to care, thanks to a bill signed by Gov. Ralph Northam on April 4. The new law creates the potential for nurse practitioners in Virginia with at least five years of full-time clinical experience the opportunity to practice without a more

Nurses Push to Bring Research Back Into the Gun Violence Debate

Apr 24, 2018

Nurses are on the front lines of gun violence, and it’s not just in the emergency room. For the country’s estimated more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

Nurses Are on the Cutting Edge; Now They Can Pitch Their Ideas

Apr 20, 2018

“Calling all products, prototypes, apps and ideas”: That’s the invitation from Northeastern University and AARP Innovations Lab, with support from the American Nurses Association, asking nurses to present their disruptive ideas in home health care to funders in an evening called Nurse SharkTank. more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities