Champion Nursing Coalition

About the Champion Nursing Coalition

The Champion Nursing Coalition joins together a broad spectrum of groups each with a stake in ensuring all Americans have access to a highly skilled nurse when and where they need one. This diverse national coalition represents the voices of consumers, purchasers and providers of health care, all in support of common sense, common ground solutions to build a 21st century nursing workforce. Its purpose is initially to raise awareness and ultimately to achieve permanent solutions. 
 

Guiding Principles of the Champion Nursing Coalition

Coalition members are united around a set of principles, which are:

• Recognition of the crucial role nurses play in delivering high-quality, affordable health care.
• Concern about the shortage of highly educated nurses in many sectors of the health care delivery system that exists today and is predicted to grow in the future.
• Commitment to educate ourselves and others about the need to remove barriers and increase access to high quality, nurse-provided and affordable health care; increase nursing education capacity; improve recruitment and retention; increase the influence of nurses; and build a 21st century nursing workforce.
• Pledge to find solutions that improve consumer access to high quality nursing care through public, private and other means, including as a part of efforts to implement health care reform.

Coalition Addresses Future of Nursing	Coalition Member CEO appointed to the Governing Board of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute
National Hispanic Medical Association Conference, March 17-20, 2011	Stakeholders Map Out Strategies for Breaking Down Barriers to Nursing Practice.
National Association of County and City Health Officials Holds Annual Conference July 20-21, 2011	2011 Leapfrog Hospital Survey Released: Nurses are Leaders in Promoting Hospital Transparency

Leah Binder Leapfrog Group	Debra Ness National Partnership for Women & Families	Web Golinkin & Tine Hansen-Turton Convenient Care Association	Mirian Zavala National Hispanic Medical Association
Susan Kosman Aetna	Mitchell Dvorak & Debora Simmons Consumers Advancing Patient Safety

Coalition Members

• Documents to Download and Share

• Statements of Support for the Coalition

Senator Richard J. Durbin (IL) (PDF)
Congresswoman Lois Capps, RN (CA) (PDF)

• Coalition Launch Highlights

Coalition Launch Speakers (PDF)
Speech by Nancy LeaMond, Executive Vice President, AARP (PDF)

• Coalition Member Statements:

Alzheimer's Association (PDF)
American Association of Home and Services for the Aging (PDF)
American Health Care Association (PDF)
Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (PDF)
National Education Association (PDF)
Verizon Communications (PDF)