Clinical Experience With School Nurse Was Her Wake-Up Call

Oct 18, 2017

This is the eighth in a series of profiles of leaders who are part of the Campaign talking about their connections to the nursing or health care profession and their interests in healthier communities. Andrea Tanner, MSN, RN, NCSN, is coordinator of health services and a school more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Indiana

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Paper Lays Out Ways in Which All Nurses Affect Population’s Health

Oct 11, 2017

How can nurses best help reverse course on the nation’s declining health and promote the health of the U.S. population? That question is addressed in a white paper commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and released last month. The paper, “Catalysts for more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National

NBC Names Campaign Strategic Adviser as Top Latino 20

Oct 05, 2017

NBC News honors excellence each year with its #NBCLatino20, praising achievers who are making America’s communities better. This year, national recognition goes to Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and co-chair of more

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Meeting of the Minds on Capitol Hill as Council and Coalition Discuss Progress

Oct 04, 2017

For a slideshow of the event, see below. For an audio recording of the event, see below:  “To be successful you must have focused intent. Did you hear me? Focused intent.” That was Barbara Nichols, MS, RN, FAAN, speaking of efforts to expand diversity in the more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National

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Kirch of AAMC to Co-Chair Campaign Strategic Advisory Committee 

Oct 04, 2017

The Campaign’s Strategic Advisory Committee (StAC) is pleased to announced that Darrell Kirch, MD, president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges and longtime member of StAC, will become co-chair. Kirch will share duties with Antonia Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN. more

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Report: Nurses As Intermediaries Can Improve Community Health

Oct 03, 2017

Hospitals and health facilities are not always connected with the ways people live and behave in their day-to-day lives. A new paper that refers to the “siloed nature” of the health care system also suggests that nurses are, and can be even more, a solution to the more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities