Nurse Heroes, Nursing & Nurse Practitioners in the News
April, 2022
Nurse Practitioners Gain Full Practice Authority: New York joins 24 other states, the District of Columbia and two U.S. territories in adopting Full Practice Authority (FPA) legislation for nurse practitioners.
February, 2022
Leonard A. Lauder donates $125 million to fund tuition-free scholarship program to educate and deploy nurse practitioners in underserved communities across the county.
January, 2022
Shortage of primary care providers could be reduced by the addition of nurse practitioners.
December, 2021
In Performance at the White House: Join us as 18 members of the first Nurse Heroes Choir, featuring the nurses of Northwell Health, perform in 'Spirit of the Season' at the White House for the President and First Lady of the United States and guests.
November, 2021
'Nurses For Our Future' program will fund 1,000 nursing scholarships
September, 2021
Mark & Robyn Jones Pledge Record $101 Million To Train Nurses, with the goal to train hundreds of much-needed nurses each year and expand access to healthcare in rural areas
September, 2021
Hospitals innovate amid dire nursing shortages
September, 2021
Americas Got Talent Finals: Watch as 18 members of the first Nurse Heroes Choir, featuring the nurses of Northwell Health, appear in the finals of NBC's 'Americas Got Talent'
August, 2021
Nurse Practitioners Are Primed to Help Bridge Physician Shortage: Delaware becomes 24th State to grant nurse practitioners full practice authority (FPA), authorizing them to diagnose and patients manage treatments — including prescribing medications.
August, 2021
‘Nursing Is in Crisis’: Staff Shortages Put Patients at Risk
July, 2021
Association of periOperative Nurses (AORN) Identifies Critical Shortage of Operating Room Nurses - resulting in OR closures and OR's running at reduced capacity.
July, 2021
9 hospitals across the Nation citing nursing staff shortages as reason for scaling back services
July, 2021
Today Show: Watch the premiere of the all-new 'Nurse Heroes-Hispanic Star Choir' and their performance of the official Spanish version of the U.S. National Anthem, commissioned by President Roosevelt in 1945, El Pendon Estrellado
June, 2021
Watch the preview of the 'Nurse Heroes - Hispanic Star Choir' and performance of powerful rendition of national anthem in Spanish
June, 2021
Americas Got Talent: Watch as 18 members of the first Nurse Heroes Choir, featuring the nurses of Northwell Health, win the 'Golden Buzzer' on NBC's 'Americas Got Talent'
May, 2021
Gallup poll reveals nurses considered the most trusted profession. Nurses earn a record 89% very high/high score for their honesty and ethics, and for patients, that’s important.
May, 2021
Members of Nurse Heroes choir perform in documentary broadcast on NBC, 'Side By Side, A Celebration of Service' featuring the nurses of Northwell Health
February, 2021
Jada Pinkett Smith and Adrienne Banfield-Norris supporting Nurse Heroes! Watch now.
January, 2021
Watch Nurse Heroes Art Contest Live!, a retrospective video of select art from the year and celebrate winners from December 2020 edition of Nurse Heroes -'Women Who Dared' art contest.
December 3, 2020
Here's to the Heroes: Katy Perry will be narrating artists’ works for “Women Who Dared”: The Montecito Journal
November 19, 2020
People | Watch Maluma, Marc Anthony, Pitbull, and More in Nurse Heroes Live! Concert Broadcast
November 10, 2020
Variety | Celine Dion, Stevie Wonder, Gloria Estefan Sign on for ‘Nurse Heroes’ All-Star Thanksgiving Concert
November 10, 2020
Associated Press | Star-studded benefit concert to honor nurses on Thanksgiving
October 9, 2020
Why Canadian Boxer Kim Clavel Became A Nurse During COVID-19 | Next Generation Leaders | TIME
October 5, 2020
The quiet frontline battle of South Africa's rural nurses: The global search for the worlds 'Nurse Heroes'. Published by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
September 24, 2020
Nurse staffing takes on new urgency as pandemic rolls on: Pat Kane, executive director of the New York State Nurses Association, has seen the pandemic intensify the decades-long fight over adequate nurse staffing.
August 31, 2020
Podcast - Leading through a Pandemic: CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to Northwell CEO Michael Dowling about the important lessons his team learned throughout the crisis.
July 25, 2020
Rare art collection spearheads fundraising for Nurse Heroes with international art contest - finalist and winners to appear on iconic billboards of Times Square
June 23, 2020
June 18, 2020
How Lenox Hill filmed a special coronavirus episode inside an NYC hospital - New York Magazine
June 17, 2020
Philanthropists join forces to honor Nurse Heroes with international art contest
June 17, 2020
Motivated philanthropists from across the United States are joining forces to create 'Nurse Heroes'
May 25, 2020
Side By Side television special to honor nation's military and health care heroes
May 12, 2020
Happy Birthday Florence Nightingale! Founder of modern nursing celebrates bicentennial birthday.
March 27, 2020
Hope Huddles connects front-line nurses amid COVID-19 crisis
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