Congratulations to Erica Joseph, APRN, who was recently selected as one of 10 nurses to receive the Culture of Health: Breakthrough Leaders in Nursing award, sponsored by the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action. This honor includes a leadership development scholarship from the Center for Creative Leadership, fully funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Joseph is a family nurse practitioner and a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. She currently works for t

The Louisiana Action Coalition hosted its first Nursing Workforce Diversity Think Tank on August 26 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. More than 80 thought leaders from across the state were in attendance. Barbara Nichols, DNSc (hon), MS, RN, FAAN, Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action diversity consultant, delivered the keynote address, Diversity and the Global Nursing Workforce, which set the stage for the charge for the day. Following Nichols’ keynote speech, Cynthia Bienemy, RN,