It's Time! The Path for Nursing Reimbursement Reform.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses and nurse leaders are increasingly vocal about chronic understaffing and the impact the staffing crisis continues to have on nurses' well-being and patient outcomes. The American Nurses Association's Nurse Staffing Task Force addressed the importance of staffing standards as a critically needed step toward improving patient and population health outcomes. Against the backdrop of ongoing nursing shortages, hospital leaders have been hesitant to embrace staffing ratios, expressing concerns about their ability to hire and retain sufficient nursing staff, as operational revenue margins remain thin and nursing labor is costly.

Leveraging Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to Build Nursing's More Inclusive Future.

There is growing evidence that nurses have not seen meaningful change because of their employer's diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) programs. At the same time, efforts are increasing to end DEIB programs and education in academic and work settings. These dynamics present a myriad of challenges negatively impacting any efforts to course correct and progress to build a diverse, inclusive, and pluralistic future.

No Health Equity Without Diversity: Strengthening Nursing Programs in Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

In April 2022, Adtalem Global Education sponsored a virtual summit entitled , in which several of the authors of this article and other prominent health-care professionals examined the need to diversify the health-care profession. Topics included educational justice and its impact on health care, the business case for transforming and advancing health equity, and addressing systemic inequities and improving health outcomes for historically marginalized persons. The summit inspired the authors to write this paper to advocate for authentic, sustainable partnerships led by Historically Black Colleges and Universities, as a means to diversify nursing leadership and to stem systemic and structural inequities in health care.

The relationships between the healthy nurse, Healthy Nation program, RN perceptions of their work system, and health-related quality of life.

Background: There is limited research on the effects of nationally oriented health care workforce interventions on RNs' perceptions of their work systems and health-related quality of life (HRQOL).

Purpose: Guided by a systems framework, we examined the association of being affiliated with an organization partnered with the American Nurses Association's Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation (HNHN) program on RNs' perceptions of their work systems and HRQOL.

Methods: We performed a correlational, cross-sectional secondary analysis of a national RN sample (N = 2,166) with case-control matching.

Promoting health equity with HBCUs: Breaking away from structural racism.

Background: The United States continues to be plagued with pervasive health disparities. Leading health and professional organizations acknowledge structural racism as a contributing factor for the lack of a racially diverse nursing workforce particularly those serving in leadership roles which could help to mitigate health disparities among historically stigmatized populations.

Purpose: Purpose Lack of funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and lack of meaningful partnerships, stymie efforts that can be made by nursing programs at HBCUs.

The nursing profession circa 2030.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced immediate change and hopefully for the better. Navigating through this new world of care delivery warrants developing new maps to reach a new and acceptable normal. This article outlines urgent issues and necessary steps for measurable change, in nursing practice and work environments by 2030.

Trends in mental health indicators among nurses participating in healthy nurse, healthy nation from 2017 to 2021.

Background: American healthcare workers face unprecedented stress and trauma in the workplace during COVID-19, putting nurses at increased risk for poor mental health. Examining trends of mental health from before and during COVID-19 can illuminate the toll of the pandemic on nurses well-being.

Methods: Nurses enrolled in Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation receive a prompt to take an annual survey (n = 24,289).

The US COVID-19 crises: facts, science and solidarity.

The United States leads the world in COVID-19 cases and deaths. The government's poorly coordinated response has lacked national mandates, failed to deploy adequate personal protective equipment, supplies and testing and devalued advice of science experts. COVID-19 exposed racial disparities in health care and as protests against racial injustice erupted, nurses have responded to the call to confront racism as a public health crisis.