Nursing’s Expertise Gap

May 22, 2018

Millennials are entering the nursing profession in large enough numbers to fill most of the jobs vacated by retiring baby boomers, but new nurses lack the expertise of nurses who have been in the workforce for more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data

Multistate Licenses Help Military-Spouse and Other Nurses Begin Working Right Away

May 14, 2018

When Yumuriel Whitaker’s husband was transferred to Georgia from the Florida naval base where he was stationed, Whitaker applied for a Georgia nursing license in order to work legally in the state. The process, she says, was “tedious, challenging, and confusing.” She had to pay $60. Submit passport photos. Fill out paperwork. And wait. more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care

Many States, One License: The Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact Is Now Live

May 14, 2018

As the 21st century has progressed, it’s become increasingly apparent that allowing geographical boundaries to limit health care professionals’ reach is not good for consumers or the people providing care. The average American now moves approximately 11 times in a lifetime; the days of settling and staying in one place are all but gone. more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Promoting Nursing Leadership

The Best Partners May Be Right in Your Own Backyard

May 11, 2018

For the past few years, The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action’s state-based Action Coalitions have been partnering with local groups to build a Culture of Health in their communities.  As we know, the most effective way to do this usually involves working with more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Michigan New Jersey

Nurses Remain Largely Invisible in the Media

May 08, 2018

A 1998 study of nurses’ voices in the media found that nurses were “largely invisible” in leading print publications. Twenty years later, little has changed. That’s the sobering conclusion of The Woodhull Study Revisited: Nurses’ Representation in Health News more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

Kentucky Clinic Opens Students’ Eyes

Apr 30, 2018

Sometimes transformative nursing education can take place in the community, with patients who earn very little, speak limited English, and may not read. Patients at the Kentucky Racing Health Services Center typically hail from Mexico and Guatemala. They come to the U.S. to work as contract employees and exercise, feed, and shampoo the racehorses at Louisville’s Churchill Downs racetrack. more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Transforming Nursing Education

Nurses Support the Health of Horse Racing’s Invisible Workers

Apr 30, 2018

The Kentucky Derby calls forth images of giant racehorses, garlands of red roses, and fans wearing elaborate hats and sipping mint juleps. But behind the track’s public face are low-wage workers who labor in the backstretch, near the stables. more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Transforming Nursing Education

National

Humanitarian Streak Led Her to Nursing—and to Help in Puerto Rico

Apr 27, 2018

Gina Miranda-Diaz, DNP, MPH, APHN-BC, is health officer and director of the health departments of West New York and Guttenberg, NJ, and an adjunct faculty at Rutgers University School of Nursing. Fluent in both English and Spanish, she informs the community about culturally more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National New Jersey