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November 15, 2022

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Deadline Near for Innovations Funds Proposals
Submit your proposals by tonight (Nov. 15) at 10 p.m. ET for the 2022 Health Equity Innovations Fund. The AARP Center for Health Equity Through Nursing and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action seek to fund projects designed to eliminate structural inequities within the nursing profession, health systems, or community.

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Nurses Show Up for Their Community Through Barbershop Health Talks
When they’re not working their hospital jobs, write Aron King, MS, RN, and Carter Todd, MS, MBA, RN, they are building trust in their communities through Barbershop Health Talks. “Providing health education by showing up for people in trusted environments,” they write, “is a proven and effective way to achieve health equity.” Their barbershop outreach has gone online, too.

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At AAN Meeting, Talks of Challenges Inspiring Positive Action
“It’s amazing what nursing has prepared us to do,” said one of four speakers who educated and inspired the audience at this year’s American Academy of Nursing policy conference. Those onstage at the Courageous Careers event had widely differing paths, but had one thing in common: Big challenges in their lives became turning points in careers spent helping others.

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Public Health Nurses Write of Need To Advocate
Public Health Nursing is out with a paper co-authored by Carolyn Nganga-Good, DrPH, MS, BSN, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Public Health Nurse Leader 2015-2017 and a member of the Maryland Action Coalition. Among other findings in “Overcoming barriers and improving public health nursing practice”: the need to advocate to the public, including legislators, “what public health does for them on a daily basis.”

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Nurses Need Flexibility—and More Say—To Avoid Burnout
“Am I off this Christmas? Could I attend my own son’s birthday party? Who knows.” In an essay in Fast Company, a critical care nurse of 10 years reports on the state of staffing at hospitals and the reasons for a situation that makes life dangerous as well for patients. For starters, suggests Nacole Riccaboni, MSN, MBA, APRN, re-evaluate how we measure the value of nurses. “Nurse Nacole” is the host of SHIFT Talk, a podcast funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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Nursing Workforce Data Ready to Be Explored
The Health Resources & Services Administration invites you to read all about the state of the nursing workforce in, for the first time, a searchable dashboard format. The 2018 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses offers detailed information about demographics, employment, and education for RNs, NPs, and APRNs that can be filtered by location, license type, and employment status.

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Dept. of Labor Grants, Campaign Share Common Goal
Announced earlier this fall, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Nursing Expansion Grant Program, which offers $80 million to help ease America’s nursing shortage, is built on the same foundation as is the Campaign for Action: The National Academy of Medicine’s original Future of Nursing report. The shared goal: Improve Americans’ health by strengthening the country’s nursing workforce. Grants will go to increase the number of educators and advance nurses in their educations and careers.

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Are you eligible for student loan forgiveness?
Most hospitals and health organizations are 501c3's meaning that most nurses who work for a qualifying employer are eligible for loan forgiveness – whether they know it or not. AARP and the Savi Student Loan Repayment Tool can help you take charge of student loan debt by providing a personalized assessment of repayment and forgiveness options.

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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
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Funding, Tools, and Other Opportunities

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ANA To Fund Organizations Using Project Firstline Curriculum
The American Nurses Association seeks partners in its efforts to teach the fundamentals of infection prevention and control. ANA is offering grants of $10,000 to organizations that can be part of Project Firstline, whose goal is to teach health care workers with a better understanding of ways to protect against infectious disease. Applications are due by November 22.

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Funds Offered to Organizations To Help Ease Nursing Shortage
Institutions with programs that can help increase the number of nursing educators and expand and diversify the pipeline of nursing professionals are invited to apply for the U.S. Department of Labor’s new Nursing Expansion Grant Program, which offers $80 million to help ease America’s nursing shortage. One aim is to increase the number of educators; the second, to advance nurses in their educations and careers. Applications are due by January 6.

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Meetings and Webinars


Meetings open to all unless otherwise noted. Follow links for details about fees and registration.







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Echo on Racism in Nursing National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing. November 16, 3 p.m. ET.

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AARP: Student Loan Workshop | Powered by Savi Savi & AARP. November 16, 4 p.m. ET.

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Echo on Racism in Nursing National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing. November 30, 3 p.m. ET.

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AARP: Student Loan Workshop | Powered by Savi Savi & AARP. December 8, 7 p.m. ET.

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Echo on Racism in Nursing National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing. December 14, 3 p.m. ET.

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Reimagine and Rebuild – Midwifery Insights for the Future of Healthcare American College of Nurse-Midwives. May 7-10, 2023. Orlando.





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