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Healing Democracy: Nurses Championing Nonpartisan Voter Registration

About this event 🏥 Join Healing Politics & Vot-ER for an Interactive Webinar 🗳️ Hosted by Nurses Davey Scher, MPH, MSN, RN, CEN, & Janet Michaelis: Learn to use your trusted voice to encourage patients to register to vote. Session Takeaways: Understand the Relationship Between Voting and Health: Discover how civic participation impacts overall well-being. 🗳️❤️ Access Resources for Nonpartisan Voter Registration: Equip yourself with tools to help patients register without partisan bias. 📚📝 Learn Legal Guardrails for Voter Registration: Ensure compliance with legal standards while promoting voter registration. ⚖️✅ Let's make a difference together! 💪🌍   Register HERE at Vot-ER   About Vot-ER Vot-ER is bridging a gap in care with a groundbreaking prescription: civic engagement. Our mission is to empower patients and healthcare professionals to address the root causes of health disparities through civic participation. By doing so, we're not just treating symptoms — we're fostering a healthier, more equitable society. Our swift and easy HIPAA compliant resources promote employee happiness, combat burnout, and cultivate deeper trust between the healthcare professional and patient. Since our founding in 2020, Vot-ER has expanded, with over 350 institutional partnerships, 700 participating sites, and 50,000 healthcare professionals. Our movement has been featured by The New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, NBC, NPR, and PBS NewsHour. Recognizing that 83% of adults will visit a healthcare facility in the next year, we understand the critical role these spaces can play in voter registration and turnout, which directly impact public health and investment. Together, we can uplift patients’ voices in shaping local, state, and federal health policy, through the power of their vote.  

Florida Nurse Practitioner Network Annual Meeting

Orlando Marriott World Center 8701 World Center Drive, Orlando, FL, United States

Kimberly will deliver the keynote address Healing Politics: Every Nurse is Needed at the Florida Nurse Practitioner Network Annual meeting on Friday, August 23 at 9:15 am. She will then be joined for a question and answer session by Rosemarie Latham, a Nurse Practitioner running for the Florida House of Representatives - District 29 this fall. They will discuss everything from the unique skills nurses bring to campaigning for elected office to how NPs can help nurses and nurse-friendly candidates run and win!

Georgia Association of Nurse Anesthetists Board Retreat

Kimberly joins the Georgia Association of Nurse Anesthetists to conduct a legislative workshop for incoming and outgoing members of the Board of Directors. We'll talk about methods to increase member engagement in legislative advocacy, the importance of civic engagement, and, of course, encouraging colleagues to run for elected office - and how to help them win!

Nurse Attorneys as Leaders, Advocates, & Legislators

Virtual Event Virtual Event

  Representation matters. Diverse voices at policy-making tables lead to public policy that is more representative of the community it serves. However, nursing’s voice is missing from many of those tables. We now know the number of nurses in elected office is decreasing, not increasing. Let’s change that! During this webinar we will discuss the importance of representation in politics, why nurse attorneys are uniquely qualified to run for elected office, and how to get started. There are 3.5 million nurses in the United States and while we won’t all run for office, the millions of us that don’t can help those that do. Learner Objectives Define “representation” in the political context. Identify the skills and expertise that make nurse attorneys uniquely qualified to run for elected office at every level - local, state, or federal. Describe what the participant can do to increase the representation of nurses in elected office. Register here

Political Determinants of Health with Nelson J Dunlap

Virtual Event Virtual Event

As nurses, we’re keenly aware of the social determinants of health - those conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect our health. Perhaps more important are the political determinants of health – the policy choices that led to the SDOH. Join us on September 23rd at 8 pm ET to hear about Political Determinants of Health from Nelson J. Dunlap, JD, VP, Public Policy & External Affairs, School of Global Health at Meharry Medical College. What are PDOH and how are they different from SDOH? How can nurses support PDOH? Please consider donating $10 to support future Healing Politics events. 

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2024 Oklahoma Nurses Association Annual Convention: Nurses Innovate & Advocate

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotels - Warren Place 6110 S. Yale Avenue, Tulsa, OK, United States

On Wednesday, September 25th Kimberly is excited to kick off the Oklahoma Nurses Association Annual Meeting with a keynote titled: Oklahoma Nurses as Advocates, Leaders, and Legislators. Nurses: Innovate & Advocate will have two full days of sessions to support nurses as they innovate and advocate for themselves, their work environments, the profession, and their patients. Nurses innovate when they develop workarounds, create new methods, or propose solutions to existing problems. Advocacy for patients and the profession is crucial, whether in the workplace or with policymakers. Presenters will explore these vital nursing roles, along with other important issues facing the profession. Details and registration information are here.

Jeri Milstead Policy Symposium & 2nd ANA-Ohio Annual Meeting

Marriott Columbus Northwest 5605 Blazer Parkway, Dublin, United States

The Jeri Milstead Policy Symposium will be held on Friday, September 27 followed by the Second ANA-Ohio Annual Meeting on Saturday, September 28. Healing Politics is honored to be invited to deliver the keynote address: Shaping Policy to Shape Nursing's Future at the Symposium and join hundreds of nurses to celebrate accomplishments, collaborate on new ideas, and create new connections with colleagues from across the state of Ohio. Further details along with registration information can be found here. If you are a nurse who lives or works in Ohio, we hope to see you there!

Create Your Own Event

Happy Election Season! Healing Politics Aficionados know that we host monthly virtual events. In the spirit of civic engagement, we encourage every nurse and midwife to Create Your Own Event in October! Whether you intend to run for office or want to help colleagues who do, the weeks leading up to the 2024 general election provide a wealth of opportunities to gain experience and expertise. If running for office or managing a campaign is in your future, volunteer for a candidate of your choice and try someone else's campaign for size. It's a terrific learning experience - no risk and all reward! Communities that vote are healthier! Improve the health of your community by registering voters and encouraging them to vote. Help others vote by becoming a poll worker. Our July event featured our partner, Power the Polls. We discussed what poll workers do and why they are important to the voting process. Nurses & midwives from CA, CO, DC, DE, IL, MA, MD, NC, NY, and PA have already signed up; it's not too late to join them! Check out the Create Your Own Event information on our website for advice and tips about what you can do right now! Then, share your October “event” on social media - show us what you did and share what you learned. Tag us: #healingpolitics #nursingispolitical #nursesleadchange #nursesvote. Are you ready to Create Your Own Event?!?!? Learn more here.   The fine print: Healing Politics is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization and cannot engage in campaign activities for any candidate. However, we can (and do!) encourage everyone to be an educated voter and to work to elect individuals you support.