The Future of Nursing 2020–2030: Charting a path to achieve health equity

•The National Academy of Medicine report, The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity calls for a series of policy reforms to unleash the potential of nurses to play greater roles in advancing health equity.•The report recommends that the systems that educate, pay and employ nurses: 1) permanently remove barriers to care; 2) value their contributions; 3) prepare nurses to tackle health equity; and 4) diversify the workforce. The need to fully support nurses is interwoven throughout the report.•All nurses should work in partnership with others to advance the nine major report recommendations. The National Academy of Medicine's long-anticipated report, The Future of Nursing…

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