The Action Coalition co-lead and key contacts list is updated regularly. The last update to the document was on June 11, 2025.

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The  Campaign Health Equity PowerPoint presentation (updated 9/16/2023) and accompanying template can help you tell the story of the Campaign and nurses leading to achieve health equity. Feel free to add slides and/or tailor the deck to your audience and presentation.

Disclaimer

The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action encourages Action Coalitions and Campaign representatives to use the standard PowerPoint slide deck for presentations. The PowerPoint presentation may be used as is; simply add the speaker’s name, title, date, and venue/audience to the cover slide and master slide where indicated. However, other changes and uses are not permitted:

Slides

• Text: Other than the additions noted above, do not alter the text, images, or slides in any manner.
• Images: Do not copy the images for use in your own presentations or elsewhere—doing so may violate copyright law, leading to significant fines.
• PowerPoint slides: Do not post the slides on any websites, whether it is your site or someone else’s, and do not distribute them to audience members without the express permission of Campaign staff.

Template Slide

If you would like to create your own slides, you may use the blank Campaign PowerPoint template (link below). However, because this template bears the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation logo, please:

• Do not use such a slide for any presentations that constitute lobbying under Internal Revenue Service rules (e.g., a presentation to legislators or their staff that refers to a specific legislative proposal, or a presentation to the public that refers to a specific legislative proposal and includes a call to action, such as “call or write your legislator”).
• Do feel free to customize this blank template with text and images, as long as you have appropriate permission for any images you include and your use does not violate copyright law.

These rules are intended to protect copyrighted materials licensed by the Campaign but owned by other entities. Any penalties resulting from improper use of these presentations – including demands for payment from the owners of any images used – are the responsibility of the individual and/or the Action Coalition. If you have any questions about how to use these PowerPoint presentations, please contact Campaign staff for assistance.

Campaign’s Health Equity PowerPoint

Campaign for Action Blank PowerPoint template

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The document includes:

• Overview
• Map of State Progress in Removing Barriers to Practice and Care
• Recent Publications in Support of Removing Barriers

Let us know if you have anything to add by emailing Winifred Quinn at wquinn@aarp.org

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These data expand on Dashboard Indicator 3: Removing Barriers to Practice and Care, used to measure the Campaign’s progress toward modernizing outdated policies (public and private), changing state and federal laws and regulations, and removing cultural and organizational barriers to allow advanced practice registered nurses to be able to practice to the full extent of their education and training.

• View the Campaign for Action Dashboard
• View the full AANP map

Note: The map below is current as of March 2023. 

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The four types of advanced practice registered nurses:

• nurse practitioners
• clinical nurse specialists
• certified registered nurse anesthetists
• certified nurse-midwives

APRNs are registered nurses with advanced degrees who have passed national certification exams. Learn who APRNs are.

Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia allow nurse practitioners to practice without restriction. See other states’ efforts  to update their laws.

Studies show that better laws mean more Americans enjoy greater access to high-quality health care at a lower cost:

Access

In 2012, the National Governors Association produced a paper supporting its premise that the best way “states could increase access to primary care for their residents is to consider easing their scope of practice restrictions.”

Quality

A review of published literature over 18 years on care provided by APRNs shows “APRNs provide effective and high-quality patient care, have an important role in improving the quality of patient care in the United States.”

Cost

Separate studies in multiple states show the economic benefits of removing barriers to practice and care; scholars and think tanks make the same case in articles. A Federal Trade Commission report states that “expanded APRN scope of practice is good for competition and American consumers.”

Two webinars, “The Evidence Shows: Better Laws Mean Better, More Accessible Care” and “Progress on the Institute of Medicine Recommendations: More Evidence” provide data showing that the  nation benefits when nurses can practice to the full extent of their education and training.

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These data expand on Dashboard Indicator 3: Removing Barriers to Practice and Care, used to measure the Campaign’s progress toward modernizing outdated policies (public and private), changing state and federal laws and regulations, and removing cultural and organizational barriers to allow advanced practice registered nurses to be able to practice to the full extent of their education and training.

• View the Campaign for Action Dashboard
• View the ACNM map

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Prior approval is required when you are using the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action name and logo.

To request approval of the logo, please submit proposed materials to CampaignforAction@aarp.org and describe how the logo will be used and how the materials will be distributed.

Allow at least five business days for approval. However, as described on page 4 of the guidelines, the Campaign name and logo are never to be used on lobbying materials. The only exception to the approval requirement is when Action Coalitions use pre-developed collateral or template documents provided by the Campaign, such as the template postcard or Campaign brochure.

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• View the Campaign for Action Dashboard

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