(Updated) Post-Hurricane, Red Cross Calls for Volunteers

Oct 10, 2016

Update: As of October 15, the American Red Cross is no longer recruiting for volunteers in the hurricane-hit region. Hurricane Matthew, which flooded coastal communities in the Southeast and inland areas of North Carolina as well, has left thousands stranded and multiple more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: North Carolina

Tips, Tools From a Nurse Can Help Patients Stop Smoking

Oct 07, 2016

The rate at which patients were able to stop smoking doubled when they conferred with a nurse before leaving for home, finds a new study. Nurses participated in one-hour trainings on how to help people quit smoking, according to the study written by Sonia Duffy, PhD, RN, more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Michigan

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Charting Nursing’s Future: A Valuable Resource

Oct 06, 2016

Charting Nursing’s Future has been providing information on key policy issues for the past 10 years, and highlights the important role nurses play in building a Culture of Health. In its September 2016 issue, the American Journal of Nursing praised Charting Nursing’s more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National

Nurse Turns Surplus Into Better Health

Oct 03, 2016

“Too much hunger, too much waste, too much food” sums up the intertwined problems that Jennifer M. Grenier MSN, RN-BC, is helping untangle. Working closely with community partners in Chicago, Grenier is seeing to it that good food is put to good use—and that the hungry get more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Illinois

New York Nurses Go to the Fair

Sep 16, 2016

It’s not called great for nothing: Held on 375 acres near Syracuse over 12 days, the Great New York State Fair welcomed a record crowd of more than 1 million people this year. Amid the rides and fried foods and cotton candy were nurses talking with fairgoers about more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: New York

Petition Aims to Put a Nurse in Every Public School in Va.

Sep 14, 2016

Children who aren’t healthy can’t learn. That’s the premise behind a campaign to require every public school in Virginia to have at least one full-time registered nurse. The campaign is led by Dana Holladay-Hollifield, BSN, RN, NCSN, a school more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Virginia

Good Health Means Good Business

Sep 13, 2016

Health Means Business, a two-year campaign of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, features forums throughout the country showcasing businesses in each city that know—and act on the belief—that economic health and community health more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Georgia

Roots of Success Take Hold in Nevada

Sep 09, 2016

Two inspired nurses met one inspired urban farmer, and a Culture of Health began to blossom. The dedication on the part of Debra Collins, BSN, co-chair of the Nevada Action Coalition (NAC) and former chair of the Nevada Alliance for Nursing Excellence, and Linda Paulic, RNC, more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Nevada