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Nurses and midwives from across the U.S. gathered for the 2nd annual Healing Politics Campaign School. An initiative aimed at empowering them to run for local, state, and national elections. The event featured...
July 1, 2024
If you thought about the qualities of an ideal candidate or an ideal policy maker, you would come up with a list of the same qualities every nurse possesses.
February 18, 2024
Healing Politics is a non-profit organization that equips nurses & midwives with the tools and resources to run successful political campaigns. While the American Medical Association offers a campaign school for physicians, there is no corollary option available to nurses. This inspired Healing Politics to run the campaign school, following a delay due to the pandemic.
February 18, 2024
As health care programs, policies and funding loom large in political arenas, nurses are being encouraged to run for elected office.
February 18, 2024
In this episode, we explore with Kimberly Gordon, DNP, CRNA, co-founder of the nonpartisan, non-profit Healing Politics, why nurses and midwives need to get politically engaged, run for elected office up and down the ballot, what campaign training sounds like, and how to build a culture of civic engagement within the nursing professions
September 4, 2023
The inaugural Healing Politics Campaign School for Nurses and Midwives was highlighted in a feature story from the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy and the in the August 13 edition of The Duke Weekly.
September 4, 2023
Read Senator Gale Adcock's reflections on the inaugural Campaign School for Nurses & Midwives, where she served as an inspiring and entertaining faculty member!
August 27, 2023
Louise Kaplan (associate professor emerita at Washington State University Vancouver in Vancouver, Wash., and a family NP at Tumwater Family Practice Clinic in Tumwater, Wash.) explains how Healing Politics is here to help NPs advocate by running for office.
August 27, 2023
The February newsletter made an appeal for all nurses in the state to let their voices be heard by attending events and reaching out to elected officials within the state. The non-profit Healing Politics takes that a step further...
June 7, 2023
Read more to find out what’s stopping nurses from throwing their hats into the political ring and what Healing Politics is doing about that.
June 7, 2023
Nurses considering a run for office often ask, “But where do I begin?” In 2021, Lisa Summers, PhD, RN and Kimberly Gordon, DNP, veteran nurse activists, founded a non-partisan, non-profit group – Healing Politics - to help nurses who want to seek public office.
June 7, 2023
Lisa and Kimberly discuss how nurses' experiences in clinical settings, their ability to establish trust, and their systems thinking make them ideal candidates for elected positions
May 12, 2023
