The California Action Coalition serves as the driving force in transforming health care through nursing in our state. Recognizing the important work already underway in California and with a goal of long-term sustainable change, we are leading the way to improve the health of the population.
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Susan B. Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN For her decades of policy work that have advanced compassionate care, Susan B. Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Policy by HealthImpact and the DAISY Foundation on Monday, September more
Locations: California,
The American Nurses Association\California (ANA California) has created an important tool to assess the extent to which racism permeates nursing in California’s health care system. But it goes further than that. The tool, which is a self-assessment for both more
Issues: Improving Health Equity, Locations: California,
The Need The need for the expansion and growth of nurse-led clinics, to deliver primary and behavioral health services, is well supported by health data from national, state, and local sources. These data document the extent of primary care physician shortages in more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Improving Access to Care, Locations: California,
California’s 39 million residents will have significantly improved access to care from advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), thanks to more
Issues: Improving Access to Care, Locations: California,
Patients—not nurses—are the story when it comes to state legislative battles to modernize advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) scope of practice laws. Explain more
Issues: Improving Access to Care, Locations: California,
Nursing Journeys is a profile series featuring Action Coalition leaders discussing their career paths and reflecting on the more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Locations: California,
This is the 13th in a series of profiles of Campaign leaders talking about their connections to the nursing or health care profession and their interests in healthier communities. Melissa Pinto, PhD, RN, FAAN, is associate professor of nursing at the University of more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Locations: California, National,
When asked where she grew up, Gloria McNeal responds with a mere ZIP code. But don’t expect to hear 90210, or any other such posh digits. “One-nine-one-two-three,” she says, “and that is a ZIP code you didn’t want to come from.” It may not have been more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Promoting Nursing Leadership, Locations: California, National, Pennsylvania,
This is the fifth 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. At the University of California, San Francisco, Monica McLemore, more
Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership, Locations: California, National,
It may be the wave of the future: A nurse-managed clinic in Los Angeles that uses telehealth to increase consumers’ access to care is expanding its services to connect people who don’t live nearby with nurse practitioners who can provide the care they need. Thanks more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Improving Access to Care, Locations: California,
Monica R. McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN, assistant professor at the Family Health Care Nursing Department at the University of California, San Francisco, will speak—fast—in a lightning talk at the White House Frontiers Conference Thursday, October 13, in Pittsburgh. more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Increasing Diversity in Nursing, Promoting Nursing Leadership, Locations: California, Pennsylvania,
After 18 years, U.S. Rep. Lois Capps of California uses the recent renewal by Congress of legislation that improves people’s access to high-quality care by nurses as a springboard to say goodbye. (Capps announced her plan to retire early last year.) In a column on more
Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership, Locations: California, National,
One cites the team atmosphere; the other, the value of hard work and staying calm under pressure. Both are football players-turned-nurses who see common elements in their old and new professions. Patrick Hill and Brandon Rice, two star college players who grew up more
Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing, Locations: California,
The Pre-Term Birth initiative in California (PTBi-California) gives new meaning to community partnership in its effort to address a problem that disproportionately affects women of color and those who are poor. Working hand in hand with these women to both get and more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Locations: California,
A new article in the AARP Bulletin, “Nurses Seeking Larger Role in Primary Care,” highlights efforts in California to remove barriers to nursing practice and care. While nurse practitioners have advanced education and training to provide many aspects of primary more
Issues: Improving Access to Care, Locations: California, National,
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