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EdD, RN, FAAN…and Now President-Elect of AARP’s Board

Jun 07, 2016

The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action has many friends on the AARP board of directors, of course, given that the effort to improve America’s health through nursing is an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. But the Campaign is more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National
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The Evidence Is In, and Posted: Experts’ Webinars Now Online

Jun 06, 2016

What has changed, exactly, in the wake of the 2010 report on the future of nursing? That’s what the more

Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National
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Proposed VA Regulation Draws 10,000 Comments and Counting

Jun 03, 2016

“We are looking to add to our ability to deliver health care,” the top Veterans Health Administration official told The Washington Post about the proposal that would allow advanced practice registered nurses at Veterans Affairs facilities to provide health care services to the full extent of their education and training. The response to the idea: More more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Location: National
New Mexico Action Coalition Partnering With Public Health Nurse Leader on Project to Bring More Nurses to the Table

Jun 02, 2016

Our Public Health Nurse Leader, Amy Wilson, MPH, BSN RN, APHN-BC, is working toward an objective of increasing the capacity of nurses to work with community partners, coalitions and boards in order to have an impact on health at the community/population level. The New Mexico Action Coalition (NMAC), in its capacity as facilitator/convener/collaborator, is more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: New Mexico
Indiana Nurses on Boards Coalition–Part of the National Effort

Jun 02, 2016

The Nurses on Boards Coalition (NOBC) is a national initiative created to help recruit and engage nurses to step into leadership roles. To assist the Nurses on Boards initiative, state affiliates of the national organizations forming NOBC are working at the local level to drive nurses to be counted, prepare nurses to be effective board members, and find more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Indiana
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The Dashboard, Campaign’s Measure(s) of Success, Gets Upgraded

Jun 02, 2016

Since the Institute of Medicine (IOM) set the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action on its course with its recommendations in 2010, the Campaign and its Action Coalitions have used a dashboard to keep track of progress. That gauge has just been updated, in an effort to better more

Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National
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VA One Step Closer to Allowing APRNs Full Practice Authority

May 27, 2016

Why can’t nurses be allowed to provide more care to veterans? That is what the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has asked for a while now. Back in January, the VA sent its proposal to the Office of Management and Budget. The VA’s big idea: to change regulations so that advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) in VA facilities were authorized more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National
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Pennsylvania Senate to Hear Bill to Ease Scope Restrictions; Research Backs It Up

May 27, 2016

Pennsylvanians are a step closer to being able to receive primary care with fewer hurdles, thanks to a bill that went to the state Senate earlier this month that would end the requirement that nurse practitioners maintain written contracts with physicians to practice and prescribe medication. And research published at the same time underscores the more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National Pennsylvania