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New Wisconsin Video Promotes Nursing Diversity

Sep 06, 2016

The Wisconsin Center for Nursing, co-lead for the Wisconsin Action Coalition recently released Nursing in Wisconsin: Faces of the Future, a video to promote the critical need to build a diverse nursing workforce. The video features multiple, diverse nursing students from the Wisconsin Student Nurses Association as they showcase the many roles of nursing to more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Increasing Diversity in Nursing Location: Wisconsin
Nebraska Offers Diversity Toolkit

Sep 03, 2016

Check out the Nebraska Action Coalition’s Diversity Toolkit: The need to diversify the nursing workforce in Nebraska is essential. The overall goal of this toolkit is to ensure a response in Nebraska that addresses the health care needs of an increasingly diverse population. This toolkit is a product of NAC’s State Implementation Program (SIP) grant more

Location: Nebraska
At Case Western, Students to Work Together to Prepare for Future Care

Sep 02, 2016

Beginning in 2019, a building larger than eight football fields will house an equally big idea: that students from multiple health fields should learn how to work together as they are mastering their fields. The Cleveland Clinic is the site of what will soon be the Case more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Location: Ohio
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Campaign Allies Among Modern Healthcare’s Top 100

Sep 01, 2016

Modern Healthcare has named its 100 most influential people in health care in 2016, and among the leaders are many whom the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action is proud to call allies. For starters, the Campaign is closely linked to these two luminaries on the more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National
Pennsylvania’s Villarruel Speaks Out on Greater Access to Care

Aug 31, 2016

Months after the Pennsylvania Senate passed a bill allowing nurses to provide health care to the full extent of their education and training, Antonia Villarruel, PhD, FAAN, dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, explained in a column on philly.com what the more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: Pennsylvania
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Leadership Webinar Features NOBC Head, 2 Emerging Leaders

Aug 30, 2016

Laurie Benson, BSN, RN, executive director of the Nurses on Boards Coalition, is headline speaker in a free webinar September 15 at 1 p.m. ET. The Illinois Healthcare Action Coalition hosts Benson as she explains NOBC’s goal of increasing community health by boosting the number of nurses in leadership roles. Also speaking are two 40-under-40 emerging more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Illinois National
Explaining Voluntary RN License Survey Questions

Aug 29, 2016

The Alabama Board of Nursing (ABN) aligned its license renewal surveys with the National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) National RN Minimum Dataset (MDS) for the first time in 2015 with LPNs. This year, RNs in more

Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Location: Alabama
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Research Paper Lists Strategies Behind Nebraska’s Success in Changing Laws

Aug 25, 2016

In Nebraska between 2011 and 2013, legislators considered a staggering 1,795 bills related to scope of practice for all health professions. Of those, 349 were enacted. Now three researchers who are friends and allies of the Nebraska Action Coalition have produced a paper that analyzes the way decisions were made by various parties in the pitching, more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National