Young Tennessee Nurse Follows Mentors in Learning to Lead

Jan 24, 2017

“An amazing woman with a compelling story,” is what the Tennessee Action Coalition ’s nursing leader Carole R. Myers, PhD, RN, says about Chisa Huffman, who last month received her master’s in nursing. The University of Tennessee-Knoxville graduate is also a shining more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Tennessee

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Take It From a Nurse, Nurse Tells Congress

Jan 19, 2017

In an opinion piece, a nurse begins his advice to the new Congress by citing his own credentials: Once again, Americans in 2016 ranked nurses as the country’s most trusted professionals. Writing on the Oxford University Press blog, Mark Lazenby, PhD, APRN, FAAN, associate more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

COACH Introduction for Breakthrough Leaders in Nursing 

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The Campaign for Action hosted a webinar for Breakthrough Leaders in Nursing to learn about a new program—COACH, or Campaign Outreach Advocate for a Culture of Health. Sue Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s senior adviser for nursing, and more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership

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Nurse Leaders Report High Job Satisfaction

Dec 08, 2016

Increasing the number of nurse leaders offers myriad benefits to a country with a health care system in transition and a population that is aging. Now, a survey from the American Organization of Nurse Executives finds that nurses in leadership positions find their jobs highly more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

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Nurses Increasingly Advocate Beyond the Bedside

Nov 28, 2016

This is the third in a series of posts about the top issues facing nursing today as covered in The Power of Ten: A Conversational Approach to Tackling the Top Ten Priorities in Nursing. Nurses are natural bedside advocates, writes Jesse Kennedy, an intensive care unit nurse at more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

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Celebrating America’s Nurse Practitioners

Nov 15, 2016

The American Association of Nurse Practitioners writes: “National Nurse Practitioner Week is held annually to celebrate these exceptional health care providers and to remind lawmakers of the importance of removing outdated barriers to practice so that NPs will be allowed to more

Issues: Improving Access to Care Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

Good, busy year for the Nurse Diversity Council of Pennsylvania

Nov 14, 2016

In Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Action Coalition’s Nurse Diversity Council (PA-NDC) has been busy bolstering the nursing workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve! The PA-NDC’s mission is to increase diversity throughout more

Issues: Building Healthier Communities Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Pennsylvania

Leadership Courses Required at This University

Nov 14, 2016

“You’re graduating as a nurse leader,” all nursing majors at Widener University are told. That’s because nursing students at Widener, near Philadelphia, also attend courses at the Oskin Leadership Institute. Widener sends students in several disciplines to the institute; more

Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership