Celebrate the Nation’s Nurse Practitioners This Week (and Always)
National Nurse Practitioner Week is November 8-14, and an opportunity—as the American Association of Nurse Practitioners says—to highlight the breadth and depth of the role and the critical difference NPs make in the lives of patients, especially during the pandemic. The Campaign salutes and thanks the nation’s 290,000 nurse practitioners.
At a virtual conference aptly named “In Crisis and Calm: Leading With Purpose,” the American Academy of Nursing has inducted its 2020 fellows. The Campaign for Action was proud to honor a number of Campaign allies among those newly named AAN fellows and Living Legends. Congratulations to all honored as leaders in education, management, practice, and research.
AARP, WHO Aligned When It Comes to Year of the Nurse
"Never has the health of the world depended so much on the power of nursing,” writes Susan C. Reinhard, PhD, RN, FAAN, in AARP International Journal. Reinhard, senior vice president and director of AARP Public Policy Institute and chief strategist of the Center to Champion Nursing in America, explains why AARP and the World Health Organization are both focused on nursing.
New AARP Tool Tracks Nursing Homes During Pandemic
Nursing home residents are especially vulnerable to COVID-19, but until now there’s been little coordinated tracking of the spread of the virus in these facilities and how well-equipped they are. The AARP Nursing Home COVID-19 Dashboard changes that. The recently launched tracker points to where resources are most needed by identifying areas of concern at the national and state levels.
Now’s the time to get involved: AARP and the Nurses on Boards Coalition seek nurses to represent AARP on community boards working to improve patient care, support family caregivers, build healthier communities and advocate for policies that lead to better health and well-being. Volunteer
Novelli Book Shows How To Create Social Change
Bill Novelli, MA, former CEO of AARP, shows why he’s such a valuable member of the Campaign's
Strategic Advisory Committee, in Good Business, a book on doing well by doing good. Novelli, now professor in the MBA program at McDonough Georgetown, writes of lessons learned on a path that also includes public relations, the Peace Corps, and leadership roles with National Academy of Medicine committees.
Core Competencies Detailed for Providers of Complex Care
What knowledge and tools are required for those caring for individuals with complex health and social needs? For the past year, a working group has sought to define the necessary skills and attitudes—and now, through research and insights from the field come a final set of core competencies that are useful for health care, behavioral health, and social service practitioners.
NAM Report Looks at Well-Being of LGBTQI+ Populations
It takes data to provide culturally responsive and clinically appropriate care. That’s one reason the National Academy of Medicine has released Understanding the Well-Being of LGBTQI+ Populations, an examination of the mental and physical health of this population as well as their well-being in terms of family, community and more. Among funders: the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Campaign Lists Ways to Help, Stay Informed About COVID-19
The Campaign for Action
website now offers a resources page with information for both nurses and the public about the novel coronavirus. Among features: leading nursing organizations seek information from nurses and offer health suggestions, while trusted health authorities tell the public how to support nurses, and stay safe.
Action Coalitions: What’s Up? Tell Us So That We Can Share
Fans of the Campaign for Action like to learn what’s happening in other states. But we might not know your stories. Help us celebrate your efforts and share details of progress by dropping a note to Aidan McCallion at
[email protected]. We’ll spread the news through news posts, social media, and the Campaign Update.
Funding, Tools, and Other Opportunities
New - It Takes an Ecosystem: Complex Care Collaborative Seeks Applicants
To strengthen the complex care ecosystem in your community, says the National Center for Complex Care and Social Needs, apply for its Community Ecosystem Learning Collaborative. Assistance includes 15 months of individualized technical assistance and the opportunity to work with peer communities. Deadline: January 15.
Updated Code of Ethics for Nurses Invites Comments
The International Council of Nurses is revising its Code of Ethics for Nurses in response to the realities of nursing and health care, as it has done periodically since the code was introduced in 1953. The latest version of the code, to be launched in 2021, has undergone a review by members of the ICN board and is open now to comments from others. Deadline to review: November 22.
RWJF Seeks Applications for Racial Equity Research
Achieving racial equity in the U.S. requires a multipronged policy approach. To that end, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation seeks proposals from organizations and interdisciplinary research teams to build evidence about how national, state, and local policies can decrease racial inequities in health and well-being. Application deadline: November 24.
Participate in Testing the Board Engagement Survey
Calling all registered nurses (RNs) and advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs): have you served for at least one year on a board of directors with fiduciary responsibilities? You may be eligible to participate in a study, approved by the University of Massachusetts Boston Institutional Review Board, to test an instrument aimed at measuring the engagement of nurses on boards. Take the survey and share this message with your RN and APRN colleagues. Deadline: December 31.
Nurses are leaders in hundreds of ways; the Nurses on Boards Coalition (NOBC) wants to put some of those ways into words. NOBC has a short survey asking nurses who contribute as board members to explain how they are broadening the perspectives of others. Speak up!
NurseHack4Health: Pandemic Management (virtual) Johnson & Johnson; Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs & Leaders; Microsoft; and dev up. November 13–15.
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