In 2023, the Mississippi Action Coalition and the Nurses on Boards Coalition conducted an inaugural survey to demonstrate the value of nurses serving on governing boards. Developed with a 2022 Health Equity Innovations Fund Award, this survey was the first comprehensive tool to measure the value of nurses on boards, commissions and appointments, and specifically, the impact of nurse trustees on addressing the social determinates of health and leading change on issues of structural racism.

Results of that survey will be released June 5 as part of a webinar/virtual discussion that will examine three key implications of the research findings and identify how nurses serving on governing boards are impacting the social determinants of health.

The presenters are:

• Kimberly Ann Cleveland, PhD, JD, MSN, RN, C-MBC, C-MPC; Board Chair Emeritus, Nurses on Boards Coalition; Associate Professor Kent State University
• Pam Rudisill, DNP, MSN, RN, NEC-BC, FAONL, FAAN; Board Chair Emeritus, Nurses on Boards Coalition; Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer; Community Health System

The webinar will be held June 5, from 4-5 p.m. ET.

It is hosted by the American Association of Nurse Attorneys. There is no registration fee, but registration is required.

This event is approved for Nursing CE with the California Board of Nursing for live or on-demand participation. (This event is not eligible for CLE.)

https://taana.org/event-5702874

The 2022 Health Equity Innovations Fund was sponsored by the AARP Center for Health Equity through Nursing^(SM) and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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The objectives of the American Indian Alaska Native Mentoring Curriculum are:

• Provide an overview of AI/AN historical, social, and political context and its influence on higher education experiences
• Provide guidance on culturally sensitive and responsive mentoring approaches, and teaching and learning strategies for faculty
• Provide guidance on strategies to support AI/AN student retention and academic success
• Provide information and resources on approaches for recruitment of AI/AN students

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Attendees at the American Academy of Nursing’s annual policy conference expect insightful commentary. This year, presenters delivered drama and emotion as well. The Academy kicked off the October meeting with four presentations in the popular Ted Talk format, and judging from the chatter in the hallways, the audience of roughly 1,200 people from 16 countries was both moved and impressed.

In keeping with the conference theme, From Reflection to Impact: Positioning Nursing’s Future, four nurse leaders shared their experiences of “failing forward” as they built their courageous careers. Here are some highlights from their presentations, plus video of each of their full presentations.

“I just want to illuminate the problem.”

Paul Leon, BSN, PHN, wanted to become a hospital executive, but his hours as a critical care nurse were not compatible with earning an MBA. He decided to become a public health nurse in Orange County, California. The job gave him regular hours and regular contact with people living on the streets.

One chilly March night, Leon was called to a public park to assist a mother with two sick children. With no resources to give them, he promised to return the next day, but when he got home that evening, Leon broke down. As someone who had moved at least eight times a year while in junior high school, he understood too well what his clients were going through.

As Leon’s wife tried to comfort him, she asked what he wanted to do. “I just want to illuminate the problem,” he replied, and the idea to start a nonprofit was born that night. Leon founded the Illumination Foundation in 2008 and set about disrupting the cycle of homelessness in Orange County and surrounding areas. The organization provides shelter, medical services, case management, and assistance in locating permanent housing, and it has become a leading provider of recuperative care to homeless individuals following a hospital stay.

The foundation’s impact on individual lives has been palpable.  Leon described one client who had been isolated from family and friends for so long when he entered the recuperative care program that it took him weeks to engage with staff. When the breakthrough came, it was profound. “’You guys put clean bandages on my wound,’ the man said. ‘You let me sleep in a warm nice bed, and you touched me. You made me feel human,’” Leon told attendees.

Today Leon is one of two Campaign for Action senior health equity fellows, and he has achieved his dream of becoming an executive. His current title is CEO of National Healthcare & Housing Advisors (NHHA), which is striving to integrate the delivery of health care and homeless care services across the nation.

Between 40,000 and 100,000 men, women, and children die on the streets in the United States each year, Leon told attendees. His courageous career has spared many that fate.

“My name is Felesia Bowen, and I want to be a dean.”

Felesia Bowen’s, PhD, ARNP, FAAN, talk began with a story from her student days.  She recalled watching a hospitalized nine-year-old brushing her teeth and coming to the realization that the girl lived in a house without running water. She knew she had to speak up or the girl would be discharged to an environment where she would almost certainly develop an infection. “Because of my lived experience, I knew that she didn’t have plumbing in her house,” she said. “That’s what a diverse nursing workforce does.”

Fast forward, Bowen became a nurse and eventually accepted a tenure-track position on the faculty of a well-known institution. She was one of three Black full-time faculty members. She obtained funding for research on health disparities, published her findings, and was invited to be a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Faculty Scholars Program. Then one day, a colleague called to say she wouldn’t be recommended for tenure. Bowen was crushed.  “In that moment, I felt worthless,” she said, and she felt confused, because she had done the work expected of academics.

When the phone rang a few weeks later, Bowen received a job offer from a university 11 hours away from her home.  With two children still in school, she weighed the offer carefully, consulted her husband and her mentors, and ultimately decided to take a chance on the opportunity.  Within a year, she was nominated and inducted into the Academy, and several years later, she was recruited into her current position.

“So, what’s the moral of my story?” she asked attendees. “Don’t let others define you, your work, or your worth…. Don’t be afraid to take advantage of the opportunities that come your way… Go for it.”

She closed with a message to nursing school deans who say they want a diverse nursing workforce. “You need to recruit diverse faculty, and when you get them, foster them, set them up for success,” she urged. “Make people feel like they belong so that they’ll stay. Do the same thing for your students.”

“I failed to ask for help from others around me.”

By any measure, Sheila Burke, MPA, BSN, FAAN, has had a stellar career—as health policy specialist and later chief of staff to former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, as a member of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, and as executive dean of the Harvard Kennedy School, to name just a few of the positions she has held.

Early on, she chose to pursue a career in policy, leaving hospital nursing for an opportunity to work with the National Student Nurses Association. From there, she headed to the U.S. Senate, where she was often the only woman in the room. She found mentors who helped her survive in that “boys club” and learned the hard way about the value of compromise when her views on welfare reform led to efforts to demonize her in the press.

Burke began her Academy talk by detailing a particularly painful experience from her time as chief operating officer of the Smithsonian Institution, which faced many challenges during her tenure. The institution had decided to renovate the Reynolds Building, which houses the National Portrait Gallery and the American Art Museum. Millions of dollars had been spent and construction had begun when Burke was called before the D.C. Arts Commission to explain the project.

“I did so, and I failed,” Burke told attendees. Many months later, after visiting each member of the commission with the project architect at her side, the commission approved the project. Meanwhile, the price of steel had risen by $10 million. For Burke, the recognition that she was not always the right person to deliver a particular message “was a painful and a very expensive lesson.”

Other lessons learned? Looking back on her entire career, she stressed the importance of finding a mentor (and becoming one, too), asking for help, and learning to listen—all skills that are familiar to nurses.

“It’s amazing what nursing has prepared us to do,” she concluded. “[The ability to work in] teams is one of them, the ability to set priorities, the ability to listen, …the ability and willingness to take risks, to stand up. Every nurse is prepared to stand tall.”

“My whole life, I’m different.”

“I’m a product of assimilation laws,” Margaret Moss, PhD, RN, FAAN, told attendees, and as an American Indian in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, she stood out even before grew to be six-feet tall. At an early age, Moss and two other children from the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara (MHA) Nation were adopted by a German American neurosurgeon and his Scottish/English wife and sent from North Dakota to live in Bethesda, an affluent Maryland suburb.

When Moss shared the circumstances of her upbringing with people in later life, they’d often say, “Your father was a surgeon, and you grew up in Bethesda. What could be wrong?”

“Well, a lot was wrong,” Moss would inform them.

A self-described “woman of a certain age,” Moss grew up at a time when American Indians were considered “colored” under Maryland law. She couldn’t drink out of certain fountains or go to the local water park and had to sit in the balcony if she went to the movies. At her Catholic school, she was told her people were savages.

Moss survived the experience, but her older siblings did not. “When we were growing up, no one ever asked us, ‘Are you okay?’ My siblings would have said, ‘No, we don’t feel safe,’ and they weren’t,” Moss recalled.

Moss currently lives and teaches in Canada, which has started down the path of acknowledging the wrongs done to its indigenous people. Canada established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015, which led to requiring mandatory health professions courses in indigenous thought, engagement, understanding, and knowledge. Moss teaches one of those courses and invites elders to share their experiences of boarding schools and Indian hospitals. She concludes the course with an indigenous “talking circle,” where every participant is invited to speak. She said half of her students leave the experience in tears.

“They’re like, ‘We had no idea. How come nobody ever told us?’” Moss explained. “I said, ‘Don’t worry. It’s by design you didn’t know, but now that you do know, it’s incumbent upon you to bring it forward.”

She urged attendees who want to create a sense of belonging for students, faculty, and other co-workers at their institutions to look for ways to better understand and acknowledge indigenous peoples’ experiences.

The Courageous Careers event was hosted by the Academy’s Institute for Nursing Leadership in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Future of Nursing Scholarship program and AARP. 

Susan Reinhard PhD, RN, FAAN, senior vice president and director, AARP Public Policy Institute and chief strategist, Center to Champion Nursing in America and Family Caregiving Initiatives, welcomed attendees. She encouraged them to apply for

Health Equity Innovations Fund grants from the new AARP Center for Health Equity through Nursing and the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action. Applications are due Nov. 15 before 10 p.m. ET.

The Campaign for Action, which is building a healthier America through nursing, was also a conference cosponsor. The Campaign is an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

View all video clips from the event.

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The Future of Nursing West Virginia Action Coalition held the grand opening of the Aila Accad Center for Nurse Entrepreneurship Saturday, September 24, ahead of the West Virginia 2022 Gala Fundraiser and Awards Ceremony. The Center, named for the late Aila Accad, MSN, RN who served as executive director at Future of Nursing West Virginia, was established earlier this year to support nurses interested in opening health-related businesses.

In 2021, the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), which works for sustainable community and economic development, announced it would award the Future of Nursing West Virginia coalition $630,000 to establish the West Virginia Center for Nurse Entrepreneurship. The Entrepreneur Project, which was the precursor to the Center, grew out of the 2018 Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action Nursing Innovations Fund.

Below are some photos from the grand opening, courtesy of Susan Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, former director of the Campaign.

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Maleka Robinson, MSN, BSN, RN, and her daughter Marcella Garner, DNP, CCRN, RN, made New Jersey history earlier this year when they opened the first Black-owned mother-daughter, nurse-led clinic in the state.

Robinson, who has lived in East Orange, N.J., for 24 years, wanted to bring a medical clinic to her community, which has a shortage of health providers and health accessibility.

“Demand for services outweighs access, and some people often do not trust the medical system,” she said.  “We know our community and want to bridge that gap.”

Robinson renovated the first floor of her two-family home into a medical facility, and MGM Medical Center opened its doors in June. MGM stands for Marcella Garner and Monica, the names of Robinson’s two daughters.

Because Robinson and her daughter both work full-time in hospital settings, they keep the clinic open four-and-a-half days a week, each of them working there during their days off from the hospital. 

Robinson is an acute care hospitalist at Morristown Medical Center, and Garner is a family nurse practitioner at the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery at Saint Barnabas Medical Center.

Their experiences caring for hospitalized patients inspired them to open a clinic focused on primary care and prevention.

“We see people at the end of the train and catch them at their lowest point,” Garner said. “We wanted to see patients earlier on, when we can encourage them to get routine physicals and lab work, and to eat right and exercise.  We want to educate patients and make them knowledgeable of how to take care of their hypertension, diabetes or asthma, so it doesn’t lead to worse conditions or hospitalizations.”

Ericia Williams, who lives in nearby Harrison, N.J., believes Robinson and Garner saved her life.  She suffers from anemia, which caused her hands to be cold and turn yellow. Iron pills, a common treatment, made her ill.  As a Black woman originally from the Caribbean, she wanted a provider who understood Black women’s health. She discovered MGM Medical on ZocDoc.com.

Williams went for her physical and completed lab testing. Garner called her the next morning at 6:00 a.m. to tell her that her hemoglobin was dangerously low and to go to the emergency room for a blood transfusion — and stayed on the phone with her until she got there.

The blood transfusion was successful, and Williams has since completed three of five iron infusions to bring her hemoglobin up to normal levels. She is working with Garner and Robinson to eat more iron-rich foods to maintain her iron levels.

Robinson and Garner “are caring, and they really listened,” Williams said. “They never rushed me, and they explained everything. I’ve told everyone from Brooklyn, where I grew up, you have got to check them out!”

Dea Turner, a chemist from Parsippany, N.J., similarly sought out a provider who understood her and her background after negative experiences with non-Black clinicians who criticized her weight based on unrealistic standards for her body type; her BMI is within the normal range.

“I get nervous going to a doctor, and they put me at ease,” Turner said. “They listened, they were attentive, and they let me say what I needed to say. [Garner] did encourage me to exercise more and to make sure I’m eating healthy, but she didn’t make me feel bad about it. She could relate to me and my background.”

Turner appreciates how the East Orange community can see Garner and Robinson and “imagine entering the medical field, too. It’s a good image for young people to see these women.”

Both Williams and Turner emphasized the importance of having a provider who looks like them, given the widespread health disparities affecting Black women. Research shows that Black nurses increase access to care and improve the quality of care Black patients receive.

The mother-daughter health team wants to address the disparities in care head on. Their initial goals are to make the East Orange community aware of the clinic, as well as to provide education on disease prevention and to refer patients, as needed, to services that address the many social determinants of health.

Their long-term goals are to hire an obstetrics/gynecology provider and nutritionist.  They want to provide exercise and nutrition classes and make the clinic a place people visit to stay healthy. They also want to encourage more people in their community to seek medical care.

“From growing up in East Orange and speaking to other people, we realized there was a mistrust of health care professionals,” Garner said. “We let people know we treat everyone with love and respect. If we build trust, patients start to ask us questions about their health.”

The clinic, which is transit accessible, accepts most insurance carriers, Medicare and Medicaid patients, and charges an $80.00 flat fee for patients without insurance.  Approximately 10 percent of patients self-pay, and 20 percent are on Medicaid ─ a number Robinson expects to increase.  It also partners with LabCorp, Quest and Acureference to offer patients without insurance a discount on lab tests.

Mervin Nelson, who lives in Newark and lacks insurance, sought out the clinic when he had a stomach infection and learned MGM Medical takes uninsured patients.

“They treated me right, and they made me feel welcome,” he said.  “A lot of places turn their back on you without insurance.”

Robinson’s and Garner’s impactful careers illustrate the power of nurses modeling and mentoring for each other and their communities. Robinson decided to become a licensed-practical nurse (LPN) after she saw an LPN helping a disabled woman grocery shop.  A young single mom, Robinson worked as an LPN, then returned to school for her RN, BSN, and then MSN to “be able to make a bigger impact,” she said. Robinson has also been a part of medical mission teams, including in Haiti, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic for over 12 years.

Garner fell in love with nursing after working in a nursing home as part of a health class elective she took in high school.

“Whether it was just chatting with a patient or getting them coffee, the patients were so appreciative, and it gave me great joy,” recalled Garner, who had intended to become a lawyer before taking the elective. “I told my Mom, ‘I get it. I understand why you’re a nurse, and I want to be one, too.’”

Garner was content with her bachelor’s degree and working in an ICU, but her mother told her she could make a larger impact by helping more patients to stay well with a doctorate of nursing degree.

“I trusted her, so I did it,” Garner recalled.  “We love our jobs.  We love helping our patients.”

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Nurses have been working with public schools to serve children for generations. In Massachusetts, nurses and school leaders used funding from the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action to improve the well-being of students, especially those living in communities with low health rankings. The Campaign is an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Since 2010, Massachusetts has required every public school to have a wellness committee that addresses topics of nutrition, physical activity, and any other issue that might affect student well-being. The Campaign’s Massachusetts Action Coalition leveraged its first Nursing Innovations Fund award to increase nurse leadership on these school wellness committees, focusing on communities that received low rankings in the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute’s County Health Rankings and Roadmaps project.

“This project aligned with a national movement to seek new leadership roles for nurses,” said Patricia Crombie, MSN, RN, project director with the Massachusetts Action Coalition. That movement included the Nurses on Boards Coalition filling more than 10,000 board seats or decision-making bodies with nurses whose strategic influence will improve the health of communities, plus additional focus by the Campaign and others to elevate nurse leaders.

“There has been a focus for several years among nurses developing leadership roles beyond the usual medical spaces,” Crombie said. “We were also developing relationships with many school nurses and public health nurses, so it all kind of came together when we saw an opportunity from the Campaign to help nurses pursue those leadership roles.”

Crucial to the success of the project was a partnership with the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents. This group was represented on the team by Joseph Baeta, Ed.D, superintendent of Norton Public Schools and Paul Vieira, Ed.D, superintendent of Douglas Public Schools.

Baeta said it had always bothered him that health was treated as an afterthought in school curricula. He explained that his district has taken the unusual step of instituting a year-long health class in freshman year conveying the message that it is as fundamental a subject as English or math.

Vieira agreed that the past few years have showed the state just how much nurses can do for schools. “They’re doing more than just Band-Aids and checking blood sugar,” he said. “They’re in classrooms. They’re educating staff. They’re developing curricula. They’re in planning meetings with teachers. They’re doing so many things behind the scenes to strengthen the school.”

The Massachusetts Action Coalition used its second Nursing Innovations Fund award one year later to focus on developing interventions to help school wellness committees address vaping, a top concern for school administrators.

The Action Coalition collaborated with partner organizations and school wellness committees to create a structure and process for vaping curriculum development. Its members then worked with representatives from partner organizations to create evidence-based, adaptive and developmentally appropriate curriculum based on existing state and national resources. The outcome was an Anti-Vaping Curriculum Resource Guide, which was evaluated and disseminated to school systems throughout the state.

Though the focus on the issue lessened somewhat because of the pandemic, Baeta said he anticipates that school administrators will have a much greater need for the curricula as they see their students are no less addicted than they were before COVID-19 lockdowns.

“It’s back full throttle,” he said.

In The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity, the National Academy of Medicine highlighted schools as essential sites for addressing social determinants of health. The Massachusetts project shows that with the right partnerships in place, nurses and school leaders can effectively meet the diverse needs of schools throughout the state.

Forming those kinds of partnerships takes curiosity and humility, according to Maureen Sroczynski, DNP, RN, who served on the Norton Public Schools wellness committee with Baeta.

“Instead of going in and telling people what they should do, it’s more reaching out to the community and saying, how can we help you? How can we support what you are already doing?” she said.

Baeta believes that by boosting the visibility of school nurses, this program is deepening the community’s respect for their expertise and for the many different ways they can contribute to the well-being of students. To learn more about the Massachusetts Action Coalition’s project, visit the Nursing Innovations Fund webpage.

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Please visit NOBC’s website to be counted and to access many resources designed to help nurses build board and leadership skills: www.nursesonboardscoalition.org/.

Rita Wray represents the Action Coalitions on the Nurses on Boards Coalition Board and is co-lead for the Mississippi Action Coalition. AnnMarie Walton serves as an alternate representative for the Action Coalitions on the Nurses on Boards Coalition Board and is Co-Chair of Governance and Leadership Succession for the North Carolina Action Coalition.

You can expect to receive board opportunities and leadership development opportunities and links to the NOBC quarterly newsletters from them via the Action Coalition listserv. Please also feel free to communicate with them directly. 

Rita Wray: rwray1035@aol.com 

AnnMarie Walton: annmarie.annmarie.walton@duke.edu

NOBC Strategy Map 2022-2025

VALUE STATEMENT

Provides a bi-directional communication process between the Action Coalitions and NOBC to actualize Action Coalitions’ goals in leadership development as it relates to board readiness, preparedness and placement.

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Developed in 2011, the Campaign for Action Dashboard is a series of graphs and charts the Campaign uses to evaluate its efforts to implement the recommendations in the Institute of Medicine’s The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report. It contains seven primary indicators: education, doctoral degrees, state practice environment, interprofessional collaboration, leadership, workforce data, and diversity, and can be viewed by clicking the “download” button below. It was updated twice per year and was last updated in September 2021.

Data Sources

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Dashboard Secondary Indicators

Below are links to secondary indicator graphics that provide further support for each goal represented within the Dashboard. Data collected was for years 2010-2019.

Indicator 1: Education—Increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80 percent by 2020
Number and percent of U.S.-educated, first-time NCLEX-takers with BSN
Number of RN‐to‐BSN graduates annually
Number of hospitals in the United States with Magnet status

Indicator 2: Doctoral Degrees—Double the number of nurses with a doctorate by 2020
Total fall enrollment in nursing doctorate programs
Number of people receiving nursing doctoral degrees annually

Indicator 3: State Practice Environment—Advanced practice registered nurses should be able to practice to the full extent of their education and training
State practice environment for nurse practitioners
State practice environment for certified nurse midwives
NCSBN’s APRN Consensus Model implementation status
Number of nurse-led clinics in the United States
Number of nurse-led clinics located in medically underserved areas (MUA)

Indicator 4: Interprofessional Collaboration—Expand opportunities for nurses to lead and disseminate collaborative improvement efforts
Number of articles published in top 10 health services research journals co-authored by an RN and authors from other disciplines

Indicator 5: Leadership—Health care decision-makers should ensure leadership positions are available to and filled by nurses
Percent of hospital boards with RN members

Indicator 6: Workforce Data—Build infrastructure for collection and analysis of interprofessional health care workforce data
State boards of nursing that participate in the NCSBN Nursys Data System

Indicator 7: Diversity—Make diversity in the nursing workforce a priority
Racial/ethnic composition of the RN workforce in the United States
New RN graduates by degree type, by gender
New RN graduates by degree type, by race/ethnicity
Number of Action Coalitions with members of its’ state’s ethnic or racial minority nursing organization or of its’ men in nursing state chapter as a voting member on its most senior executive-level policy-making body
Diversity of nursing doctorate graduates by race/ethnicity
Diversity of nursing doctorate graduates by gender
States that collect race/ethnicity data about their nursing workforce (by year)
Racial and ethnic composition of RN graduates of pre-licensure nursing education programs and the general population by state – upon request

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An article in American Nurse Journal challenges nurses to take an active role in combatting health misinformation. Misinformation is “false, inaccurate, or misleading information” and it has proliferated at alarming rates during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in what the World Health Organization calls an “infodemic.”

The article, co-authored by Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor and Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing at Penn Nursing, argues that “nurses have an important role in helping patients, families, and communities access credible, trusted health information.” And further, that “nurses should consider the foundational attributes of information sources when engaging on social media platforms where professional, social, and familial identities may converge.” (The article has a lot to say about social media platforms’ responsibility for this problem.)

Villarruel, who is also a co-chair of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action’s Strategic Advisory Committee, says, “nurses and consumers must develop skills to evaluate information critically.” The article takes a deep dive on proven methods for assessing the quality and reliability of information, including one called the CRAAP or CRAP test, which “encourages users to walk through brief pathways to identify key areas of online source credibility.” The key areas forming the apt acronym are Currency, Relevance, Authority/Accuracy and Purpose.  The Campaign for Action is an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The article notes that the U.S. Surgeon General has asked all Americans to help slow the creation and spread of health misinformation because it is harming both individual and public health. As Villarruel explains it, “prevention is better than cure. Treating people for the harms of the infodemic is both difficult and uncertain, but nurses have access to a wealth of tools, principles, and approaches for ensuring that patients and communities receive evidence-based, up-to-date, and credible health information.”

Read the article

Read more about Villarruel

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Deadline Extended to March 1, 2022

As members of the United States’ most trusted profession, nurses are in unique positions to influence health outcomes. Because nurses work in diverse community settings – like schools, workplaces, homes, prisons, hospitals, and assisted living facilities – we, as a group, have unparalleled power to influence and improve health in our state. We are a vital part of the fabric of our communities; we have the potential to inspire and enact meaningful change.

The Tennessee Action Coalition (TAC) aims to equip and empower nurses to drive meaningful health-related change in their communities and beyond.  Founded as part of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, Action Coalitions exist in every state and DC, thanks to a collaboration among The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the AARP Foundation, and AARP. TAC enabled institutions and nursing leaders from our 3 Grand Regions to participate in listening sessions and interviews that informed the Future of Nursing 2020-2030 report. TAC’s current priorities reflect the 2020-2030 recommendations.

In 2021, TAC launched its newest leadership initiative. Together with the Tennessee Nurses Association (TNA) and the Tennessee Hospital Association (THA), TAC acknowledged nurses under the age of 40 as Rising Star Nurse Leaders. Honorees participated in a collaborative learning program designed to engage and empower young nurses to lead the nursing profession and improve Tennesseans’ health. The program was based on what our young nurse leaders said they needed to advance their careers and promote health in TN.  Our young nurse leaders met with state and national leaders including ANA President, Dr. Ernest Grant; TNA Executive Director, Tina Girardi; Tennessee’s first nurse Health Commissioner, Susan Cooper; and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Senior Nurse Advisor, Dr. Susan Hassmiller. They participated in leadership assessment and discussion using Clifton Strengths with one of our own TN leaders, Tina McElravey, and participated in a training session on quality improvement and disruptive innovation with Drs. Susie Leming-Lee and Phil Gibbs.

TAC, THA, and TNA will again recognize Rising Star Nurse Leaders in 2022. Nurses may nominate themselves or be nominated by someone else. The nomination process includes completing an online form and submitting the candidate’s CV, resume, or LinkedIn URL. Up to two letters of support may be submitted. Successful nominees will demonstrate a commitment to excellence and positive role modeling in leadership, professional development and growth, personal health and wellness, and the promotion of a culture of health.

Please submit nominations at:   https://forms.gle/jDabMnMrMvFvoYBv9

Deadline Extended to March 1, 2022

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