Inaugural Pennsylvania Action Coalition Stakeholder Summit

Jul 01, 2016

The Pennsylvania Action Coalition hosted a Stakeholder Summit on July 23, 2016 that began with remarks from Sue Hassmiller, Senior Adviser for Nursing at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Director of the Future for Nursing: Campaign for Action, about how nurses are more

Issues: Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: Pennsylvania

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STEM Programs to Grow a Diverse Nursing Workforce

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The dearth of minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) might contribute to the U.S. losing its edge when it comes to innovation, says the National Institutes of Health—but as a result, there are now a number of innovative STEM programs that more

Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing Transforming Nursing Education Location: National

Registration Open for the 2016 Michigan Nursing Summit

Jun 16, 2016

The Michigan Center for Nursing’s 2016 nursing summit will be held September 29-30, 2016 at the Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort in Mount Pleasant, MI. The purpose of this years summit, themed A Culture of Health, is to increase nurses’ understanding of factors that impact more

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

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The Dashboard, Campaign’s Measure(s) of Success, Gets Upgraded

Jun 02, 2016

Since the Institute of Medicine (IOM) set the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action on its course with its recommendations in 2010, the Campaign and its Action Coalitions have used a dashboard to keep track of progress. That gauge has just been updated, in an effort to better more

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

Connecticut Nurse Takes on Diversity

May 20, 2016

Connecticut Nursing Collaborative-Action Coalition Diversity Committee Chair is empowering young minority students to take steps toward nursing and other health care fields. MaryAnn Perez-Brescia, RN, MSN, a professor at a state community college, is committed to increasing more

Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing Location: Connecticut

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AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins on ‘Why We Celebrate Nurses’

May 06, 2016

For a smooth-functioning, equitable health care system, “we’re going to need every nurse,” says AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins in her essay celebrating National Nurses Week. For everyone’s good, the nation needs more nurses and needs to make sure that they are partners in making more

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

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National Nurses Week: A Time to Say Thank You

May 05, 2016

At 3.4 million strong, nurses are the largest group of health care providers in the U.S. Year after year, Gallup’s annual poll finds nurses rank as having the highest honesty and ethical standards of any profession. We interact with nurses every day—in our hospitals, 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

Wisconsin Action Coalition Updates Statewide Diversity Efforts

Mar 31, 2016

The Wisconsin Center for Nursing (WCN), co-lead for the Action Coalition completed its update of state efforts to increase nursing diversity. The recent publication, Diversity in Wisconsin Nursing: Exemplars of Progress, highlights thirty programs & activities going on in more

Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing Location: Wisconsin