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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When nurses are empowered to create health equity in their communities, they bring together a network like nobody else can.

The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has demonstrated this principle through its Nursing Innovations Fund that supports the Campaign’s state-based Action Coalitions in creating replicable and promising solutions for improving health equity through nursing.

The Nursing Innovations Fund was also designed to spark collaboration with partners outside of nursing. One condition of the award is that applicants must seek matching funds from other organizations. In combination with other tools to engage local stakeholders, the awards have led to an impressive array of new multi-sector relationships, helping nurses discover new allies for creating better access to care and services.

Launched in 2018, the Nursing Innovations Fund has led to new projects in 23 states. The Campaign has awarded more than $850,000 to a wide variety of initiatives, with every dollar being matched by other funders. This blog highlights the collaborations and projects from the 2019 and 2020 cohorts representing 17 states, whom created over a dozen publicly accessible tools to be used for building health equity. All of the resources are available on the Campaign website.

State coalitions secured investment from multiple organizations that understand why it is so important to invest in better access to care and services. They include organizations one might expect, such as hospitals, nursing schools, and regional philanthropies. Action Coalitions also secured funding from unexpected sources:

• In Georgia, funding from the Clayton County Fire and Emergency Services helped create more effective paths for Black men to enter nursing.  
• In Kentucky, the Kentucky Beef Council supported an initiative to prevent suicide in the farming community, and
• In Nebraska, Scoular, an agriculture supply chain company, contributed matching funds to a project aimed at improving health equity.

In addition to funders, Action Coalitions garnered critical support from community partners representing dozens of different organizations. Here are a few of their stories:

• In Pennsylvania, a podcast highlighting nurses in health equity roles featured many local partners, including Sanctuary Farm, a program that converts abandoned areas in Philadelphia to farm plots.
• In Washington, a program to bring culturally appropriate food and essentials to older Filipino community members worked with local and national groups such as the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns.
• In Indiana, nurses from the Indiana Center for Nursing collaborated with the AARP state office to enable nursing schools across the state to implement holistic admissions programs

Crucial to the impact of these projects is the idea that all of them can provide insights that help many other organizations disrupt disparities and improve access to care and services.

Actions Coalitions drew on well-established tools to address health disparities, including the Campaign’s Heath Equity Toolkit and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Healthy People 2030. In turn, many of them developed new resources to help others:

• In Wisconsin, the Action Coalition developed a curriculum to improve nurses’ disaster response capabilities, and it is being shared throughout the state.
• In Massachusetts, nurses developed an anti-vaping resource kit for use in public schools.
• The Pennsylvania initiative centers on a podcast that helps nurses envision new careers in health equity.

Together, these partnerships, resources, and insights add up to a powerful network working to achieve health equity in the U.S. built on strengthened nursing capacity and expertise, as the National Academy of Medicine’s Future of Nursing 2020—2030 report has envisioned.

In the coming weeks, this Campaign blog will feature more detailed explorations of how this work brought together local and state coalitions to address health equity. Projects to be featured include:

• Indiana – This project brought together partners including AARP Indiana State office and Orbis Education to help nursing programs implement holistic admissions and peer-to-peer mentoring for the Nursing Education, Engagement, and Diversity Statewide Initiative, or NEEDS.
• Kentucky – The Kentucky Nurses Action Coalition enlisted school nurses to address the state’s disproportionate suicide rate, culminating in a dramatic presentation designed with the Actors Theater of Louisville. Title: School Nurses to BARN Camp for the Mental Health and Wellness of Kentucky Youth.
• Massachusetts – This project addressed vaping in youth in partnership with education and law enforcement groups from across the state, yielding new curricula to aid teachers in elementary and secondary schools. Title: Promoting Health Literacy to Influence Health and Wellness of Students in the Community: Widening the Connections.
• North Carolina – Working with the North Carolina Action Coalition, the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University developed a new model of coalition-building to help African American and rural communities. Title: Project RARE (Reciprocal, Authentic, Relationships for Equity).
• Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Nurses Center explored gaps in the state’s emergency preparedness plans, then developed a training to help nurses address the problems. Partners included nursing schools as well as the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative and the Wisconsin Primary Health Care Association. Title: Preparing Wisconsin Nurses to Address the Needs of Vulnerable Populations in a Public Health Emergency.

Previous blog entries have also explored Nursing Innovations Fund programs in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Are you interested in addressing health equity in ways like the Campaign’s Action Coalitions? Visit the Nursing Innovations Fund page for a complete list of programs as well as the Campaign resources nurses used to create them.

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“Nursing Journeys” is a profile series featuring Action Coalition leaders discussing their career paths and reflecting on the lessons they’ve learned along the way.

Deborah Washington, PhD, RN, MS, is director of diversity for nursing and patient care services at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a role she has held since 1995. A national leader on diversity in nursing, she is also co-chair of the Campaign’s Diversity Steering Committee, which supports the Campaign in its work to help prepare the nursing field to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse population.

Among her many noteworthy accomplishments, Dr. Washington helped to co-design the first culturally competent care curriculum at MGH, a program that is designed to ensure that patient- and family-centered care is provided to everyone who enters the hospital’s doors. She also helped to establish the organization’s African American Pinning Ceremony, an event that celebrates the contributions of black employees. She has received numerous awards for her work.

Why did you decide to become a nurse?
I worked as a volunteer at a nursing home, where I had the chance to assist resident-patients and nurses in various ways. I saw firsthand the difference a nurse made to them without a physician on the premises, and this inspired me to become a nurse myself.

Can you describe the journey you went on to get from that decision to where you are today?
I knew I wanted to apply to nursing school, but it was a question of affordability. At the time, I was lucky enough to be working at a full-time job that had a very generous tuition reimbursement plan, and I was given a flexible work schedule that allowed me to work and go to school at the same time.

Washington speaks at a forum on diversity issues.

What impact did the Institute of Medicine’s Future of Nursing report have on you?
The report opened my eyes to the larger role nursing had in health care, beyond my experience at the bedside. It also made me aware of the impact nursing needed to have in the future on an improved healthcare system with expanded access for patients.

How have you been involved with the Campaign for Action?
I am one of the national co-leads of the Campaign’s Diversity Steering Committee. In this role, we serve as a resource to the state Action Coalitions as they seek to respond in solid and momentum-building ways to meet the IOM’s recommendation to bring more diversity to nursing.

Of all you have accomplished, what are you most proud of?
I’m most proud of my role with the Diversity Steering Committee, because through the state Action Coalitions we are working to make sure that the nursing profession reflects the diversity of the communities we serve and that all Americans, regardless of their characteristics or background, have access to high-quality, patient centered care in a system where nurses are contributing as essential partners in achieving success.

What is the most important action that nurses can take to lead the way to improve health and health care in America?
I believe strongly in the concepts of community engagement and the Culture of Health that have been put into the spotlight by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. I also believe that communities should be more involved in shaping their own destinies when it comes to issues like the social determinants of health.

What advice do you have for the next generation?
Go out and teach the community about how the health care system works. Once the general public better understands how their circumstances are shaped and influenced by things like having access to healthy foods, the health care delivery system, transportation, education, housing, etc., then we’ll have a stronger partnership with community members that will help to bring the improvements we so badly want to see in the health and wellbeing of patients and families.

Washington participates in cultural rounds on a patient care unit to discuss culturally competent care.

Washington (second row, 7th from the right) celebrates Iftar, the evening meal Muslims eat to end their daily fast during Ramadan, with colleagues at MGH.

Washington celebrates a student mentor during Black History Month.

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The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action is excited to announce nine of its state-based Action Coalitions have each been selected to receive up to $25,000 for innovative ideas to advance nursing and build a Culture of Health. The winners were chosen based on their submission of replicable plans to continue working to implement at least one recommendation from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on the future of nursing, while also contributing to building a healthier America through nursing.

The winners are:

Colorado

The Colorado Action Coalition’s project seeks to advance nursing leadership by supporting the expansion of a nurse-led health care model to federally qualified health centers in the state. Nurse leaders interested in implementing this RN-based model will be offered a two-day workshop and team-based coaching. The project is called Nurses Leading the Transformation of the Practice Environment.

Massachusetts

The Massachusetts Action Coalition’s project, Promoting Health Literacy to Influence Health and Wellness of Students in the Community, aims to develop a health literacy initiative for students in select communities. The initiative will encourage nurses to become leaders and participants in existing school wellness committees. Participating nurses will receive population health training and access to resources from partners so they can be better positioned to shape school policies concerning school nutrition, physical activity, and other student health issues.

Michigan

The Michigan Action Coalition will create a networking platform featuring social and professional networking, as well as online education opportunities.    The aim of Nurses Connect is to  increase professional development opportunities and strengthen connections among nurses to increase job satisfaction, improve retention, and promote lifelong learning. The platform will include leadership development, mentoring, and Culture of Health components.

Nebraska

The Nebraska Action Coalition will involve nurses on an interprofessional committee whose purpose is to increase access to care by promoting the involvement of community health workers on interdisciplinary teams. The Nebraska Action Coalition will also participate in events that promote the importance of nurses leading in their communities to help build a Culture of Health. Such activity includes hosting regional conferences using the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health framework and other tools to assist communities in creating their Community Health Improvement Plans (CHIP). The information gathered will contribute to the development of a national CHIP model for other communities to use as they create their own plans.

Ohio

In an effort to promote nursing leadership and address local health-related issues, the Ohio Action Coalition will partner with Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) to encourage nurse participation in CASA’s efforts to train volunteers to advocate in court for the interests of an abused or neglected child.

Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania Action Coalition project, a podcast series titled “At the Core of Care,” is an effort to showcase the stories of patients, families, and communities, and the creative efforts of nurses and other partners to better meet their health and health care needs. These podcasts will view a health care need through the lens of the consumer and highlight the ways that nurses and other organizations are intervening and partnering to transform the health care system.

Rhode Island

The Rhode Island Action Coalition seeks to improve its state’s health care system by creating a nursing curriculum, competency assessment, and development program to prepare nurses to become primary care providers in high-demand communities. Additionally, the state will develop a campaign to promote interprofessional practices among diverse organizations to foster collaboration within the health care environment.

Utah

The Utah Action Coalition aims to increase diversity in nursing by implementing strategies that include outreach to middle and high school counselors. The goal is to recruit students from underrepresented communities and backgrounds for nursing schools. To support diversity in nursing students’ academic progression and leadership, the Action Coalition will implement mentoring and support programs featuring mentors who represent a diversity of racial, ethnic, age, gender, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

West Virginia

The West Virginia Action Coalition will focus on nurse entrepreneurship, offering webinars and online training to teach skills and build a community for nurses to learn about becoming entrepreneurs. This project is based on the belief that nurses could have a large economic impact in the state and in their communities if they were more knowledgeable about business opportunities.

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Each year the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) recognizes supporters of nursing from across the country, in two categories: nurse practitioners who have made outstanding contributions; and advocates who have made significant contributions toward increasing the awareness and acceptance of nurse practitioners.

This year AANP gives its State Award for Excellence to a number of advocates with close ties to the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Those allies include two state legislators who work with AARP state offices and sponsored bills to allow advanced practice registered nurses the ability to practice to their full education and training.

In the advocate category, here are the award winners who also have ties with the Campaign:

• Stephanie Ahmed, DNP, FNP-BC, Massachusetts
• Renee Dahring, MSN, APRN, CNP, Minnesota
• Lauren Inouye, RN, MPP, District of Columbia (Action Coalition leader)
• Beverly Lang, MScN, RN, ANP-BC, Maryland
• Linda Lazure, PhD, RN, FAAN, Nebraska
• Denise Link, WHNP, CNE, FAAN, FAANP Arizona
• Lucy Marion, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAANP, Georgia
• Gaylene Miller, West Virginia (AARP State Director)
• Laura Reichhardt, MS, APRN, NP-C, Hawaii (Action Coalition Leader)

The two state legislators are Oklahoma Rep. Josh Cockroft and Texas Rep. Stephanie Klick. AARP state office representatives had thanks for both:

“Oklahoma is facing a health care crisis across the state, but especially in our rural areas. Courageous leaders like Rep. Josh Cockroft understand the immediate need and urgency of finding a solution,” said Chad Mullen, associate state director of Advocacy at AARP Oklahoma. “We appreciate his willingness to stand up against a powerful and entrenched industry in order to bring much needed access to care to Oklahomans across the state.”

In Texas, Blake Hutson, associate state director for Advocacy and Outreach at AARP Texas, said, “Rep. Klick has been a consistent leader at the Capitol on nurses’ issues and a close partner with AARP in our efforts to promote the role of Advance Practice Nurses. She’s not afraid to stand up against heavyweight interests that want to keep the status quo in medicine to the detriment of Texas patients.”

See the list of all award winners.

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Register now to attend this exciting statewide event, sponsored by the Massachusetts Action Coalition (MAAC), which brings together nurses and leaders from across the healthcare spectrum working toward improved health for every resident and community in the state.

Building a Culture of Health in Massachusetts: Creating Momentum

Friday, November 3, 8:30am – 3:30pm
Devens Common Center

• Hear how community partnerships are contributing to building a culture of health in Massachusetts
• Strengthen connections with partners and organizations in effort to build a culture of health
• Continue to advance work to implement the Institute of Medicine recommendations
• Learn how action coalitions are collaborating with diverse community stakeholders to build a culture of health across the nation

Featured speakers:

Susan Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Senior Advisor for Nursing and Director, Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action

David Martin, Executive Director of the MA Health Council, will share insights from the council’s the nationally recognized report, Common Health for the Commonwealth: Report on Preventable Conditions and Social Determinants of Health.

Who Should Attend:

• Current and Future Healthcare Leaders
• Public Health Professionals
• Elected Officials
• Community Leaders
• All those working to improve the health of the Commonwealth

Attendees will be eligible for 3.5 contact hours

The Organization of Nurse Leaders, MA, RI, NH, CT is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Association, Massachusetts, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

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In addition to formal presentations, the 3rd Annual Healthcare Workforce Summit provided informal opportunities for connections and education.

The 4th Annual Massachusetts Healthcare Workforce Summit will be held Friday, Nov 3. Make plans to attend this exciting statewide event, sponsored by the Massachusetts Action Coalition (MAAC), which brings together nurses and leaders from across the healthcare spectrum working toward improved health for every resident and community in the state.

“We want to broaden our scope of participation in our Culture of Health work to engage public heath colleagues, community leaders, and all those committed to improving the health of our Commonwealth,” explained MAAC Project Director Patricia Crombie, MSN, RN

When: Friday, November 3, 8:30am – 3:30pm
Where: Devens Common Center

Featured speakers are:

• Susan Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Senior Advisor for Nursing and Director, Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action
• David Martin, Executive Director of the MA Health Council, will share insights from the council’s the nationally recognized report, Common Health for the Commonwealth: Report on Preventable Conditions and Social Determinants of Health.

The objectives of the full day program are:

• Hear how community partnerships are contributing to building a culture of health in Massachusetts
• Strengthen connections with partners and organizations in effort to build a culture of health
• Continue to advance work to implement the Institute of Medicine recommendations
• Learn how action coalitions are collaborating with diverse community stakeholders to build a culture of health across the nation

Learn more about the MAAC’s work on the Campaign for Action site or at www.mass.edu/nursing  or email MAAC Project Director Pat Crombie, MAAC Project Director.

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These practical nursing students show extreme dedication and commitment by completing rigorous LPN programs, some as short as 10 months, to prepare them to begin their careers. For some, this will be the start of a pathway to becoming a registered nurse (RN) or higher. LPN-to-BSN programs at nursing schools in Massachusetts, for example Holyoke Community College and Fitchburg State University, and Worcester State University, are filling that need.

Hear the stories of some LPN students, LPNs, and other nursing professionals in this short video.

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Common themes were the importance of partnerships beyond healthcare, community engagement, addressing the social determinants of health, and caring for people, not just patients. Panel presentation slides are available here.

FOCUS ON HEALTH EQUITY, RACIAL AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Everett Community Health Partnership

In Everett, a city outside Boston, a diverse multi-sector partnership is working together to examine community health in its totality. Groups from across the city have come together to examine cultural, racial, and economic inequality and how they can affect residents’ health and well-being.

The Everett Community Health Partnership (ECHP) was awarded a “Culture of Health Prize” by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation last year, which recognized “inspiring examples of communities that are weaving health into everything they do.”

“We focus on health equity and racial and social justice because they are intertwined,” says ECHP Director Kathleen O’Brien. “Safe, affordable housing, public safety, food access, mental health services in schools, and more quality jobs are all social determinants of health.”

GROWING A PRIMARY CARE WORKFORCE
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center



The Greater Lawrence Family Health Center (GLFHC) has taken an innovative approach to a staffing challenge common in urban community health centers.

“In the early 1990s, when we had only eight primary care clinicians serving 3,000 people in a city of 75,000, we realized that traditional graduate medical training was not meeting the needs of underserved communities,” explained Family Medicine Residency Program Director Wendy Brooks Barr, MD, MPH. “So we decided to grow our own primary care workforce.” Today, the Center has more than 100 clinicians and 37 family medicine residents and serves more than 56,000 patients.

The mission of the Family Medicine Residency Program is to train family doctors for the Lawrence community, one of the poorest in the state. In addition to the full spectrum of community health training, the curriculum includes integrated Spanish language training to proficiency – not just medical language but total fluency so clinicians can speak with patients about all aspects of their lives.

“Cultural competency is not something you learn in a classroom,” says Barr. “It’s learned by immersion and experience, by living and working in a community.”

“FOOT SOLDIERS” FOR HOMELESS VETERANS
Massachusetts Association of Public Health Nurses

Public health nurses may be best known for home care visits or for screenings in community settings. But over the past decade, the MA Association of Public Health Nurses (MAPHN) has also become known for its nurse-managed foot care clinics for homeless veterans.

The MAPHN community works through the year to collect supplies needed for its largest clinic at the annual Stand Down, a one-day event that provides immediate comprehensive and coordinated services to veterans in Massachusetts.

This year more than 100 nurses and nursing students provided foot care to hundreds of veterans, reports Charlotte Stepanian, MSN, RN-BC, Past President of the MAPHN. In addition to providing foot care, MAPHN nurses partner with the Occupational Health Nurse Association to conduct health assessments and provide vaccinations to veterans.

HEALTH CARE REVIVAL
Mattapan Community Health Center

“As a community health center, we’re not just committed to the health of our patients but to the health of everyone in our community,” says Sharon Callender, RN, MPH, Coordinator of Family & Community Health Services at the Mattapan Community Health Center. 



For 20 years, the MCHC has held a Health Care Revival, a faith-based, data-driven community initiative to address health disparities in Mattapan, a neighborhood of Boston. A day full of connections, education, and fun, the outdoor festival offers free health and dental screenings, information, and community conversations on health topics, such as hypertension or diabetes.

The Revival is the result of partnerships among diverse organizations — for example, a local community garden sharing information about access to healthy food. “It’s vital that we leave our egos at the door to see what we can do together to improve the health of all people in our community,” says Callender.

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT RNs IN MASSACHUSETTS?
Health Professions Data Series, MA Department of Public Health

Data on the workforce characteristics of registered nurses licensed in Massachusetts is vital to identifying needs, allocating resources, monitoring trends, and planning for education and policy.

Julia Dyck, MPA/H, MA, Director of the Health Care Workforce Center, shared highlights of the 2014 Health Professions Data Series for Registered Nurses. Derived from an online survey of nearly 92,000 RNs, the series reports on demographics, employment characteristics, education, geographic distribution, and practice settings.

For more information about these initiatives and/or to be part of next year’s Massachusetts Healthcare Workforce Summit, contact MAAC Project Director Patricia Crombie.

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