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Show-Me Nursing: Awareness and Action

May 18, 2016

The Missouri Center for Nursing was awarded a $30,000 grant from the REACH Healthcare Foundation for capacity building. The grant, titled “Show-Me Nursing: Awareness and Action,” provides support to build and promote a culture of health through the implementation of projects designed to educate nurses and nursing students on emerging topics and more

Location: Missouri
Join Us: 2016 Summit Navigating a Culture of Health in Missouri

May 18, 2016

The Missouri Center for Nursing and Missouri Action Coalition are excited to host the 2016 Summit: Navigating a Culture of Health in Missouri. The day and a half Summit is scheduled for June 1 and 2 in Columbia, Missouri. Speakers include representatives from the Campaign for Action, National Rural Health Association, Kansas City Health Department, and more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Missouri
First RIBN Students Graduate From East Carolina University

May 13, 2016

The Foundation for Nursing Excellence, in North Carolina, congratulates the first group of Regionally Increasing Baccalaureate Nurses (RIBN) students recently graduated from East Carolina University (ECU). Check out the video from ECU recognizing the RIBN graduates. RIBN’s mission is to improve the health and health outcomes of North Carolinians by more

Issues: Transforming Nursing Education Location: North Carolina
Bienemy Is Elected to National Post

May 10, 2016

Cynthia Bienemy, PhD, RN, Louisiana Center for Nursing (LCN) director and co-lead for the Louisiana Action Coalition (LAC), was elected to the national post as president-elect of the National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers on April 27 during the organization’s annual more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Louisiana
Happy National Nurses Week!

May 06, 2016

The Missouri Center for Nursing and Missouri Action Coalition commend the nearly 125,000 licensed nurses in our state and thank them for the contributions they make each and every day. more

Location: Missouri
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AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins on ‘Why We Celebrate Nurses’

May 06, 2016

For a smooth-functioning, equitable health care system, “we’re going to need every nurse,” says AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins in her essay celebrating National Nurses Week. For everyone’s good, the nation needs more nurses and needs to make sure that they are partners in making decisions. Writes Jenkins, “This National Nurses Week, all of us at AARP 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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A Note of Appreciation From Campaign Headquarters

May 05, 2016

While National Nurses Week, May 6-12, is an invitation to the public to thank a nurse, it also gives us nurses a chance to understand what we as a force, all 3.4 million of us, mean to the nation’s health. As many of you know, the two of us who proudly lead the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action are nurses. We knew at the start of our careers that more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National
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Thanks to Nurses Who Support Family Caregivers

May 05, 2016

Thanks to nurses, millions of Americans stand to get the help they need delivering care to loved ones at home. The help is through the Caregiver Advise, Record and Enable (CARE) Act, legislation enacted in 26 states and pending the governors’ signatures in several more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National