Congratulations to Laura Reichhardt, MS, APRN, AGPCNP-BC, director of the Hawaii State Center for Nursing, for being named a rising star by Pacific Business News. The business journal’s Forty-Under-40 honorees represent leaders throughout the region. Reichhardt, co-lead of Hawaii’s Action Coalition, has helped power the state through the pandemic. The 40 names are behind a paywall, but you can
read how Reichhardt has bolstered the workforce in this other article.
Campaign News and Features
Podcast Considers Resilience of, Need for School Nurses
Pennsylvania’s nurse-centered podcast, “At the Core of Care,” features back-to-back episodes examining the key role of school nurses. In one, nurses discuss how their earlier experiences helped them respond to the pandemic; the other delves into the need for research to advance the field of school nursing.
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Survey: How Do You Talk About Complex Care?
Complex care is delivered through clinics, community-based organizations, and social service agencies across the country. But for the field to flourish, providers and organizations need to be able to say just what complex care is, including its value for patients, providers, and communities. The National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs wants to hear from you.
Take the survey
New Toolkit Guides the Way for Complex Care Startups
New and developing complex care programs, take note: The Complex Care Startup Toolkit is a compendium of tools and resources for your program, regardless of setting, population, or geography. With over 200 how-to guides, templates, and examples from around the country, the toolkit is designed to prevent new programs from needing to reinvent the wheel.
Check out the toolkit
ANA Innovation Awards To Recognize Nurse-Led Ingenuity
“Your ideas and creativity are the future of health care,” writes the American Nurses Association in seeking applicants for its Innovation Awards. Those awards celebrate nurse-led innovation that improves patient safety outcomes, and will be presented to a nurse and a nurse-led team whose product, program, project, or practice that exemplifies nurse-led innovation. Deadline: October 31, noon ET.
Read more and apply
Vaccine Uptake and Concerns: Nurses Respond
Even as more Americans become fully vaccinated against COVID-19, some populations in the U.S. have lower rates of vaccination. Among Hispanic people, it’s lack of access as well as “hesitancy,” notes Adriana Perez, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, Campaign adviser and a nurse expert featured in a series of informational videos from Elite Learning.
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
Grant Encourages Use of Community Data To Close Health Disparities
The Office of Minority Health wants communities to use local data to develop tailored solutions that address health disparities. It invites nonprofit organizations, community and faith-based organizations, and foundations to apply for its Accessing Social Determinants of Health Data Through Local Data Intermediaries Initiative. Deadline: July 28, 6 p.m. ET.
Johnson & Johnson invites nurses and students to submit their nurse-led novel concepts, protocols, treatment approaches, and consumer product ideas with the potential to help improve access to care amid the pandemic environment and beyond. Winners receive up to $100,000 and mentoring from J&J. The Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge deadline is August 6.
AONL Seeks Exemplary Nurses for Its Fellow Designation
The American Organization for Nursing Leadership encourages AONL members at all levels of leadership and in the diversity of settings to apply to be an AONL Fellow. Leaders who attain this honor are committed to shaping the future of nursing leadership through expert leadership practice, mentoring, and contributing to AONL at the regional and national levels. Deadline: Sept. 9 at 3 p.m. CT.
RWJF Funds Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health
What can we do today to create a better, more equitable tomorrow? The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation invites scientists, anthropologists, artists, urban planners, community leaders and others who have new ideas that could alter the trajectory of health to apply for the Pioneering Ideas grant. No deadline.
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