She’s Out To Fix the ‘Say-Do’ Ratio In Nursing

Sep 08, 2021

G. Rumay Alexander, EdD, RN, FAAN, knows how to navigate. She has been doing it her whole life, and bringing people along as she goes. She has already started doing the same as the scholar-in-residence at the American Nurses Association (ANA) supporting ongoing work on more

Issues: Improving Health Equity

50 Questions About Racism in Nursing

Aug 31, 2021

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 nursing staff more

Issues: Improving Health Equity Location: California

New Magazine Powered by Black Nurses Takes on Health Equity Challenges

Aug 03, 2021

In the midst of a pandemic that was killing Black people at more than twice the rate of their white counterparts, Michelle Greene Rhodes (MHS, RN, more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Health Equity

Speakers, Topics, & Agenda Announced for Upcoming Health Equity Event

Jul 29, 2021

We’re pleased to share our full lineup of speakers and the agenda for Achieving Health Equity through Growth, Innovation, and Reflection. This event will take place virtually on October 22, 2021. Achieving Health Equity Through Growth, Innovation, and Reflection will more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Health Equity Location: Michigan

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Campaign’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisors on How Nurses Can Improve Health Equity

May 27, 2021

The nursing profession has enormous potential to help build a United States where all people have the opportunity to attain their full health potential, without social position or other socially determined circumstances standing in the way, which is how the Centers for more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Health Equity Increasing Diversity in Nursing Location: National

In Dark Times, NAM Study Sees a Bright Future for Nursing

May 11, 2021

Earlier today, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) released its eagerly awaited report, The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity. The report’s dedication to “nurses around the world who paid the ultimate price of caring for people more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Improving Health Equity Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education

The National Academy of Medicine is About to Release a New Future of Nursing Report Here’s How It Was Made

May 03, 2021

Medical error, clinician burnout, unconscious bias — the National Academy of Medicine has taken on some of the health care system’s most serious and contentious issues through its unique consensus reports model. On May 11, my colleagues at NAM will release another more

Issues: Improving Health Equity

Improving the Nation’s Health Equity through a More Diverse Nursing Workforce

Apr 12, 2021

“Nursing…has a responsibility to society to prepare a health care workforce that is truly going to serve and be able to be truly take care of everyone in our growing diverse society. That is embedded in our ethical code.” – Sheldon Fields, PhD, RN, FAAN (March 30, more

Issues: Improving Health Equity