Policy
It’s been eight years since the Sullivan Commission Report. The president of the local chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses argues that important work remains to create a truly diverse workforce.
Patricia Dennehy and OiSaeng Hong are among national nurse leaders in a discussion with the White House on health care reform.
Nurse-midwife Angel James believes the ACA’s easing of access to contraception is an important step, but that halting unintended pregnancies depends more on underlying social factors that run deeper than legislative solutions.
Nurse scientist Ruth Malone explains how better understanding the tobacco industry can help nurses in their ongoing fight against what she calls a “tobacco disease epidemic that killed 100 million people worldwide during the last century.”
Charlene Harrington finds that at the nation’s top 10 for-profit nursing chains there is less nursing coverage and there are more deficiencies and violations than in government-run nursing homes. Why are so few people paying attention?
Economist Wendy Max explains in the 2010 Thirtieth Annual Helen Nahm Research Lecture how UCSF School of Nursing has helped her become a leader in studying the high costs of health care.
The California Child Care Healthline offered an array of research-based services, health information and health education for child care providers and families to help children get a healthy start in life.
Center for the Health Professions researcher Joanne Spetz analyzes the impact of health reform on nursing.
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