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ANA Enterprise is proud to launch the 2018 Partners All In Awards. Their purpose is to encourage broad participation in Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™. The Partners All In Awards will be presented to the organization that has the most staff/employees, students, or members join HNHN between July 16 and October 15, 2018. General Information ...
It's the last day of the Use Your Voice advocacy challenge. Thank you for making it a success! Let the challenge inspire you all year long. Tell us how you plan to keep up your commitment to advocacy throughout the year! Stay on top of the issues you’re passionate about. Here are a few ways to stay involved: Rock the vote this year! Sign up for ...
It is day 9 of the Use Your Voice advocacy challenge and ANA's Hill Day ! Today hundreds of nurses will be in Washington, D.C., meeting with lawmakers. Follow along virtually on Twitter with # ANAHillDay and add your voice ! Personalize a template email to your lawmaker about key issues HERE . You can also tweet at them or call their offices to let them ...
It is day 8 of the Use Your Voice advocacy challenge! Throughout the challenge we have been using the Year of Advocacy #BedsideandBeyond. What does this mean? As nurses we have a unique voice that needs to be heard. Whether you serve on a committee at your workplace, improve processes at your organization, or speak up for the interests of patients, ...
Official Rules Summary of Contest: The Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™ (HNHN) Grand Challenge features monthly health challenges to engage nurses, including a ten day hydration challenge which will begin on August 12, 2019. ANA will randomly select 10 participants who have signed up for the hydration challenge to receive a water bottle, provided ...
It is day 6 of the Use Your Voice advocacy challenge! Today we remind you to rock the vote this year . It may seem simple but, according to the Pew Research Center , tens of millions of registered voters didn’t cast a ballot in the last election. Your vote makes a difference, especially in local races and during mid-term elections, like this year's. Set a ...
It is day 5 of the Use Your Voice advocacy challenge. Now that you know who your representatives are, call their office up and set up a meeting . Yes, you can do that! They want to hear from constituents — especially those that have unique insights into issues where they’re not experts. Don’t be offended if your meeting isn’t with your elected official, ...
It is day 4 of the Use Your Voice advocacy challenge. There are simple ways you can take action to make sure your voice is heard. Your task today is to take first steps. Personalize a letter at the links below to let your representatives know how you feel. The more personal details you can include about the ways these issues impact you, your coworkers, or ...
It is day 3 of the Use Your Voice advocacy challenge. Your task today is to find out who represents you. It is important to know who your elected officials are so that you can learn what they have been up to on your behalf. Use this tool from Common Cause then, visit your representatives’ websites to sign up for their newsletters or follow them on ...
It is day 2 of the Use Your Voice advocacy challenge. If you’ve been waiting to engage in the public policy process, now’s the time! There are key issues impacting nurses and patients that you can do more to change. Today, we challenge you to think about what issues you are passionate about. Perhaps there is a cause you wholeheartedly want to get behind ...
Today is day 1 of the Use Your Voice advocacy challenge. You know what issues impact you most as a nurse, but are you aware of which concerns have legislative solutions? Learn more about the issues affecting nurses nationwide and proposed actions nationwide. There are a number of key issues impacting the work of nurses today . Take a look at the links ...
Congratulations on completing the challenge Curb Your Sweet Tooth challenge! Don't forget to send us your feedback on how you have been doing here . Even though the challenge is at an end, we hope you’ll continue to keep an eye on nutrition labels for added sugar and try to limit how much you consume. One last tip: Remember “sugar-free” doesn’t always ...
It's day 9 of the Curb Your Sweet Tooth challenge! Even though most of the added sugars we consume tend to be in processed foods, the problem of excess sugar comes when we add it to our foods - for example when adding to your hot beverages, drinking sweetened iced tea, or sprinkling brown sugar on oatmeal. Over the weekend try to consider keeping the ...
On day 7 of the Use Your Voice challenge , Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation ™ and RNAction hosted the #BedsideandBeyond #nurseadvocacy live Twitter chat on Tuesday, June 19 th . Thank you to all of those that participated! We had a robust discussion on how to get started on advocacy at local/state/federal levels and learned more about ...
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