Issue   Promoting Nursing Leadership

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    Nurse Leaders Bring Knowledge of Clinical Care and Other Skills to Board Rooms

    Dec 22, 2014

    Kristy Reuss, PhD, RN, a board member at a community hospital in Colorado, immediately thought of how patient care could be adversely affected if a proposal put forth by senior management to close the rapid response team was implemented. The first and only nurse on the 16-member board, Reuss explained to her colleagues how rapid response teams quickly bring more

    Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Colorado Idaho National Nebraska

  2. National

    Join the Effort to Get 10,000 Nurses Onto Boards by 2020

    Dec 18, 2014

    In November, 2014, 21 national organizations came together to announce a new, nationwide effort to get 10,000 nurses onto boards of directors by 2020. Members of the “Nurses on Boards Coalition” include AARP, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and 19 national nursing organizations. These coalition members recognize that nurses are historically more

    Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

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    Bring in the Nurses, Stat

    Dec 18, 2014

    On December 18, the following op-ed by Sue Hassmiller and Susan Reinhard was published by the Tribune News Service. Some of the largest health care systems in America do not have any nurses serving on their boards of directors. That is a huge oversight, especially in a time of rapid change in health care delivery, when consumers and providers would more

    Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

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    The Top Five Issues for Nursing in 2015

    Dec 02, 2014

    In 2013, the Institute of Medicine released a report, U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health, that compared the United States with 16 other affluent nations. The United States ranked last or near last on nine key indicators: infant mortality and low birth weight; injuries and homicides; teenage pregnancies and sexually more

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

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    New Award Recognizes Nurses for Leading Changes in Health Care

    Nov 17, 2014

    The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action Announces  Winners of the Breakthrough Leaders in Nursing Award Ten nurses who have made extraordinary efforts to improve the health and lives of people in their communities will be recognized as the recipients of the new Breakthrough Leaders in Nursing award created by the Future of Nursing: Campaign for more

    Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

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    Arizona Nurse and Action Coalition Leader Named to New Infectious Disease Response Panel

    Oct 28, 2014

    Robin Schaeffer, co-leader of the Arizona Action Coalition and executive director of the Arizona Nurses Association, was appointed to Gov. Jan Brewer’s new Council on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response. Robin represents the Arizona Nurses Association on that Council, and is joined by representatives of 20 other organizations. Gov. Brewer more

    Issues: Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

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    Building Momentum Nationwide To Get Nurses on Boards

    Oct 22, 2014

    At more than 3 million strong, nurses make up the largest segment of the U.S. health care workforce, but relatively few nurses serve on hospital and health system governing boards of directors. A 2011 American Hospital Association survey of U.S. hospitals found that nurses accounted for only 6 percent of hospital board members, and anecdotal evidence more

    Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

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    Nurses Are Key to Meeting America’s Health Care Needs

    Oct 06, 2014

    Susan Reinhard, PhD, RN, FAAN, is senior vice president and director of the AARP Public Policy Institute and chief strategist at the Center to Champion Nursing in America, which coordinates the Future of Nursing:Campaign for Action. In this post, she reflects on the fourth anniversary of the Institute of Medicine’s landmark report, The Future of Nursing: more

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

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