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    Mentoring Boosts People Involved, and Nursing As a Whole

    Jul 22, 2015

    If you ask a nurse manager, chief nursing officer, or a nurse leader how they got where they are, it’s likely they will more

    Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: Arkansas National New Jersey Texas

  2. National

    Champion of Nursing: Best Buy

    Jul 22, 2015

    As one of the nation’s largest consumer electronics retailers, Best Buy has lots of reasons to keep its workforce healthy: 125,000, to be exact—the number of its employees. As a public company, Best Buy also has an obligation to hold the line on costs while keeping health care affordable for its staff members. Those goals are why Best Buy sees nurses more

    Location: National

  3. National

    “We Don’t Have the Power to Build a Culture of Health Without You”

    Jul 14, 2015

    The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action convened some 60 representatives of education, nursing, and business on Capitol Hill Thursday to learn about a Culture of Health and how it fits together with efforts to improve health and health care through nursing. Michelle Larkin, who oversees programs for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, described the more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National

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    Graduate Nurse Education Pilot Improving Access to Quality Care

    Jun 10, 2015

    Health care consumers are more likely to find highly qualified clinicians because of a little-known provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) that authorized Medicare to pay for graduate-level nursing education, according to a new report by AARP’s Public Policy Institute. The report, “Improving Access to High-Quality Care: more

    Issues: Transforming Nursing Education Location: National

  5. National

    Rapid Growth in Nurses with Baccalaureate Degrees

    Jun 10, 2015

    At the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, we really like data, and we couldn’t let this number slip by without highlighting it for you. For the first time, the number of nurses graduating with a bachelor of science in nursing (BSN), including RN-to-BSN graduates, is higher than the number of nurses graduating with an entry-level associate’s more

    Issues: Transforming Nursing Education Location: National

  6. National

    Study: APRN Scope-of-Practice Restrictions Are Costly to the Economy

    May 15, 2015

    A new study from a Duke University research center finds that the North Carolina economy takes an annual $430 million hit because of scope-of-practice restrictions on advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs). Christopher Conover, PhD, of the Duke Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research, writes that, in general, “North Carolina has more

    Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National North Carolina

  7. Easier Transfers Will Help Mass. Nurses Advance Educations

    May 15, 2015

    Beginning with the 2015-2016 academic year, nurses and nursing students seeking to advance their educations at Massachusetts public colleges and universities will benefit from a more streamlined and less expensive process for transferring credits. The recently finalized Nursing Education Transfer Policy (NETP) creates a seamless, cost-effective, more

    Issues: Transforming Nursing Education Location: Massachusetts

  8. National

    Maryland Increases Consumers’ Access to Care

    May 13, 2015

    The Future of Nursing:  Campaign for Action congratulates Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and the state legislatures for approving a bill that will allow nurse practitioners in the state to practice to the full extent of their education and training.  With that, Maryland joins 20 states and the District of Columbia in modernizing scope laws so consumers have more

    Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: Maryland National

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