Among exceptional leaders chosen this year by the American Academy of Nursing as a "Living Legend" is Catherine Alicia Georges, EdD, RN, FAAN, professor and chair of the Department of Nursing at Lehman College in New York. The national volunteer president of the AARP board of directors is a longtime friend of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action
and is known for ceaseless efforts to increase minority representation in nursing and advance health equity. The Campaign is an inativie of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Nursing is represented among the health professionals who are part of the 2019-2020 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows program, the prestigious learning experience at the nexus of health, science, and policy. Among the six selected by the National Academy of Medicine and RWJF is Sharron Crowder, PhD, RN, ATSF, clinical associate professor, School of Nursing, Indiana University.
Campaign Welcomes Former NBNA Chief as Co-Chair of Advisory Group
“I am elated to serve as co-lead of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action
’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Steering Committee,” says Eric J. Williams, DNP, RN, CNE, FAAN, who is the newly appointed co-chair of one of the Campaign for Action’s key advisory groups. Williams has just completed two terms as head of the National Black Nurses Association.
Next Future of Nursing Town Hall to Assess Nurse Well-Being
Innovations in nursing and nurse well-being is the focus of the third Future of Nursing 2020-2020 town hall, taking place at 11:30 a.m. ET August 7, in Seattle. Tune in and ask questions (virtually) as committee members hear testimony. Registration is closed, but you can view the livestream.
Showing Her Nursing Passion Led Her to Be Featured in News
It’s unusual for news coverage to include nurses’ voices. So how did Julie Lepianka, MSN, RN, end up in a front-page story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel? Her passion for her job pushed her to approach a journalist who covered a talk she attended. Lepianka’s experience offers inspiration on ways to get nurses’ perspectives into news coverage.
Population Health Was Theme of NAM’s Second Town Hall
Nurses with expertise in maternal and child health, school health, rural health, and aging spoke at the July 24 meeting of the National Academy of Medicine town hall, describing ways nurses are serving people with complex care needs. The challenge: that the current practice is to pay for sick care rather than preventive services.
Nurses Chime in Online to Future of Nursing Meetings
When the National Academy of Medicine hit Twitter to hear from nurses during its town hall meetings, @FlorenceHealth e-spoke up, and so did @NurseLedCare, among others. On the Campaign
website, read the recaps of the Twitter chats held in conjunction with the sessions on payments for complex needs, and nurses’ well-being.
Jefferson, Rush Nursing Schools to Join Population Health Call
Since fall 2016, educators and nurses have joined a bi-monthly Campaign for Action teleconference call to discuss adding population health to nursing curricula. This month’s call, on August 28, features representatives from two schools of nursing the Campaign visited as part of its research in producing the 2019 report, Nursing Education and the Path to Population Health Improvement.
New – Sigma, Jonas Philanthropies Launch Collaborative Research Grant
A new fund, the Sigma Foundation for Nursing/Jonas Philanthropies collaborative research grant, is designed to support nursing research that will help improve health care for the most vulnerable citizens of the U.S. Grants are available in three categories: mental health, rural health, and veterans health care. Applications deadline: December 1.
Nurses are rarely quoted as experts in news coverage, as noted in the Woodhull Study Revisited: Nurses’ Representation in Health News Media 20 Years Later. The inaugural GW Nursing Journalism Award seeks to change that by recognizing journalists who use nurses as key sources. Deadline to nominate a journalist: August 15.
Journal Seeks Abstracts for Future of Nursing Issue
Nursing Education Perspectives will devote its fall 2020 issue to The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report, 10 years after its publication. Action Coalitions and others are encouraged to submit manuscripts about nursing education research studies relevant to the report by January 1, 2020.
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