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Walmart Enters Primary Care Role With Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics
Aug 19, 2014
Across the nation, nurse practitioners (NPs) are providing care by meeting consumers where they are: retail stores. Champion Nursing Coalition members CVS MinuteClinic, Target, and Walgreens’ Healthcare Clinic Systems are providing convenient, high quality care by supplying NPs where and when consumers need them. This often means weekends and after more
Issues: Improving Access to Care Location: National South Carolina Texas
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Transforming Nursing Education
Jul 16, 2014
More highly educated nursing workforce needed to provide more complex patient care, experts say. Many registered nurses (RNs) start—and finish—their post-secondary education with an associate degree in nursing (ADN). But health care experts want more nurses to see the ADN as a first step on a career-long educational journey. “Our goal is to improve more
Issues: Transforming Nursing Education Location: National New York Texas Wyoming
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Texas Nurses Celebrate Accomplishments, Plan for the Future of Nursing
Feb 25, 2014
Great things are happening for nursing in Texas and much of the progress is thanks to the “Texas Team,” the state’s Action Coalition. This month, the Texas Team held a day-long meeting to evaluate its progress, identify priorities for action, allow regional teams to learn from one another, and celebrate nurses. The Texas Team Annual Summit and Gala were more
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Nurses Take Leadership Roles on New Insurance Exchanges
Oct 19, 2013
Nurses are playing key leadership roles in some states as consumers explore the new health insurance exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act. In Idaho, Margaret Wainwright Henbest, RN, MSN, CPNP, executive director of the Idaho Alliance for Leaders in Nursing, is one of 19 officials—and the only nurse—on the board of Your Health Idaho, the health more
Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Hawaii Idaho National Texas