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Aug 10, 2022 · Lauren Underwood (14th Congressional District of Illinois) earned master's degrees in both nursing and public health before working as a senior advisor at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Cori Bush (first Congressional District of Missouri) earned a diploma in nursing and worked as a triage nurse before entering politics.
- Combining Nursing and Policy
- Introducing Momnibus 2021
- Nurses as Agents of Change
Underwood has been a nurse since 2008. In 2018, after finishing up her job in the Obama administration, she was elected to represent Illinois’ 14thCongressional District, at 32 the youngest Black woman ever elected to Congress. She won reelection in 2020. The congresswoman got her start in politics at age 16, when she was appointed to her county’s ...
Underwood also discussed the Momnibus Act of 2021, a package of 12 bills aiming to address long-standing disparities in pregnancy and birth outcomes that she introduced February 8 with the Black Maternal Health Caucus co-chair Congresswoman Alma Adams and Senator Cory Booker. “We have to take action to stop this disparity from persisting,” Underwoo...
Underwood’s other areas of interest include working with the VA to improve gender-specific care, and suicide prevention and mental health. “This is an area where I believe we have got to be creative,” she said, noting that a “robust treasure trove” of evidence-based suicide prevention interventions, such as Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CAL...
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Jan 1, 2022 · Nurses not only have key roles in the care of ill, disabled, and dying people in a variety of settings, but they also work “to enable individuals, families, groups, communities and populations to achieve their optimal levels of health” (Canadian Nurses Association, 2015, p. 5).
- Donna M. Wilson, Leah Underwood, Sungmin Kim, Mary Olukotun, Begoña Errasti-Ibarrondo
- 2021
Feb 8, 2023 · Another election cycle has passed, and the American people have chosen their representatives. I hope everyone who reads this participated in voting and took time to review the candidates' policies on health care, access to health care, safe nurse staffing, and the myriad of other issues that nurses need to provide guidance on to our elected officials.
Sep 21, 2023 · Successful campaigns require time, energy, people, and money, and those nurses gained a greater appreciation for the process and how politicians think and act after attending. And that information makes each nurse a better advocate for change. Advocacy is essential to the nursing profession.
Oct 31, 2022 · A healthy democracy needs voting nurses. Nurses are patient advocates, providing compassionate and effective clinical care. We center wellness and justice, and we contend with social factors that cause health disparities. But when it comes to representing these ideas in America’s most important policy conversations, the otherwise confident ...
Feb 22, 2019 · Dr. Wombeogo lectures in various nursing and health-related courses, at the Schools of Allied Health Sciences and Medicine and Health Sciences, of UDS. He has mentored and supervised students in nursing and in the health and has published many articles and authored four books.
