There is no time to waste to begin implementing strategies that empower nurses to address health inequities. Because for too long, health inequities have negatively impacted far too many people in the United States. In this final episode of the Future of Nursing, we explore the goals that can be achieved by 2030, the practical steps that must be taken to move forward on the lessons we’ve learned, and how nurses around the world are stepping up to improve the health and wellbeing of the nation.

In this episode, we hear from:

Dr. Emily Jones

Dr. Roberta Lavin

Dr. Greer Glazer

Dr. Mary Wakefield

Dr. Angie Millan

Dr. Sue Hassmiller

Ms. Maureen Bisognano

Dr. Michael McGinnis

Dr. Kenya Beard

Dr. Felesia Bowen

For more information on this topic, we encourage you to read The Future of Nursing Report 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity. You can access the full report here.

The views and opinions expressed by guests do not necessarily reflect the official policies, recommendations, and stances of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

Nurses have experienced some of the most intense moments in nursing history during the COVID-19 pandemic. They worked to protect the public, often at the risk of their own physical and mental health. Yet, many nurses expressed that they did not feel equipped or trained to respond to this pandemic.

Nurses are on the frontline of public health emergencies, including pandemics, environmental disasters, and mass casualty events. The nursing workforce must be prepared to respond to these events, and be protected as they respond. In this episode, frontline nurses share about their experiences responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and other public health emergencies, and explore how nurses should be strengthened, prepared, and protected for the next emergency.

In this episode, we hear from:

Angela Gray, public health nurse, Nursing Director for Berkeley County and Morgan County Health Departments

Dr. Michael McGinnis, Leonard D. Schaeffer Executive Officer of the National Academy of Medicine

Dr. Roberta Lavin, nurse practitioner, Professor and PhD Program Director at The University of New Mexico

Derek DaSilva, intensive care unit nurse

Marcus Henderson, psychiatric mental health nurse

For more information on this topic, we encourage you to read The Future of Nursing Report 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity. You can access the full report here.

The views and opinions expressed by guests do not necessarily reflect the official policies, recommendations, and stances of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

There are many moving parts in equipping nurses to address health inequities. Therefore, it’s important for all nurses, nursing leaders, and organizations to be on the same page in understanding how health equity should be advanced.

To advance health equity, nurses and nursing organizations must collaborate to establish an agenda that addresses social determinants of health. In this episode, nursing experts explain why a shared agenda is critical, how nurses and organizations can collaborate with each other to create this agenda, and how nurses can use their voices in nontraditional ways to create solutions that address health inequities.

In this episode, we hear from:

Dr. Victoria Tiase, informatics nurse, Director of Research and Science at New York Presbyterian Hospital

Dr. Martha Dawson, President of the National Black Nurses Association

Dr. Angie Millan, nurse practitioner, Past President of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses

Ms. Maureen Bisognano, president emerita and senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

For more information on this topic, we encourage you to read The Future of Nursing Report 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity. You can access the full report here.

The views and opinions expressed by guests do not necessarily reflect the official policies, recommendations, and stances of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.