AAN Honors Georges, Villarruel for Years of Efforts
The American Academy of Nursing’s Lifetime Legacy Award will go to Catherine Alicia Georges, EdD, RN, FAAN; and Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN, has earned AAN’s Health Care Leader Award. Those Campaign for Action allies are among five luminaries AAN honors for their efforts to improve care and advance health equity.
Nursing is a path to better health — for those who are cared for, and also those who enter the field and thus assure their financial security. A recent piece on the Campaign
blog examines how a nursing career is open to people from a diversity of backgrounds, noting that a broader, more diverse nursing workforce will increase health equity, and that such an expansion in nursing’s ranks can also address America’s wealth gap.
W. Va. Program Blossoms Into Entrepreneurial Winner
From the seed known as the West Virginia Nurse Entrepreneur Project, funded in 2018 by the Campaign’
s Nursing Innovations Fund, will soon grow the Center for Nurse Entrepreneurship, funded in part by $630,000 from the Appalachian Regional Commission. Now the Future of Nursing West Virginia can expand its program, which helps nurses start their own practices, in myriad ways.
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
New - RWJF Health Policy Fellows Sought
Are you a midcareer health professional or behavioral/social scientist with an interest in health and health care policy? Ready for a full-time commitment with a minimum 12-month residence in Washington, D.C.? The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows program is looking for you, and other leaders seeking to improve health equity, health care, and health policy. Deadline: November 12.
Public Health AmeriCorps To Start “New Generation” of Leaders
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and AmeriCorps are partnering on an initiative that aims to develop “a new generation of public health leaders who will be ready to respond to the nation’s public health needs.” Public Health AmeriCorps will recruit and build a new workforce that provide public health service in people’s own communities. Deadline: November 8.
HHS Announces New COVID-19 Relief Funds for Providers
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will offer $25.5 billion in new funding for health care providers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The announcement of monies for both the American Rescue Plan and the Provider Relief Fund Phase 4 includes ways that providers can apply.
The American Red Cross has put out a call for volunteers, listing its “most-needed volunteer opportunities” in shelters, disaster health services, blood collection support, and disaster action teams. Other opportunities are available, too, even virtual posts. Nurses, nursing students, and those not in the health field are encouraged to apply.
Are you a Black or Latinx nursing student or professional? Have you ever been a participant, administrator, mentor, staff, or volunteer in a program to boost diversity in the nursing workforce? The Urban Institute will hold paid focus groups for nursing professionals to understand how to increase the number of Black and Latinx nursing and medical professionals.
Submit your one-of-a-kind innovations to the American Nurses Foundation for the opportunity to bring them to life with funds from its Reimagining Nursing Initiative. Your ideas can bring transformative change to our health care system by supporting nurses, the backbone of the health system. Grants are $500,000 to $1.5 million. Deadline: October 25.
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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