Texas Team

In 2011, the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, coordinated through the Center to Champion Nursing in America (an initiative of the AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) recognized Texas Team as the official state Action Coalition organized to advance the recommendations of the Institutes of Medicine Report: the Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health . On the heels of the 2021 report, Texas Team is now organizing around new recommendations.

Texas Team was relaunched in Spring 2021, utilizing a collaboration framework which aligns organizational expertise, desired outcomes, and strategies to accomplish shared objectives. This model is especially well suited to the first recommendation of the report which calls for (national) nursing organizations to “initiate work to develop a shared agenda for addressing SDoH and achieving health equity.”  

Members

Convener: Texas Nurses Foundation
Advisory Council:
Barbara Aranda-Naranjo, PhD, RN, FAAN (co-lead)
Serena Bumpus, DNP, RN, NEA-BC (co-lead)
Amy K. McCarthy, DNP, RNC-MNN, NE-BC, CENP
Pat Yoder-Wise, EdD, RN, co-chair
Ray Perryman, PhD, co-chair
Jeff Watson, DNP, RN
Joyce Batcheller, DNP, RN

History

Texas Team Action Coalition was previously cosponsored by the Texas Nurses Association and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas.  It consisted of 516 member organizations and hundreds of nurses who worked enthusiastically to transform nursing and health care in Texas. In February 2018, Texas Team reorganized its work groups around specific strategic goals:

1. Facilitate the preparation of faculty to meet the workforce demands of the future (transition to faculty roles).
2. Facilitate the transition to practice for new graduate RNs and ARPNs.
3. Support and advance nurses leading from the bedside.
4. Advance nurses on boards.

Accomplishments: 

• APRN Prescriptive Authority Agreement Model enacted by SB 406 during 2013 Legislative Session. The Perryman Report (2012) which addressed the economic impact of APRNs on the economy was instrumental in gaining momentum to pass legislation.
• Texas Team awarded one of 10 national Academic Progression in Nursing) grants by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2011-2013).
• Texas schools of nursing launched new Doctor of Nursing practice programs, and 2013 data indicates number of doctorates (DNP and PhD) rose significantly.
  
• Texas Healthcare Trustees partnered with the Texas Team to launch “Nurses on Boards” initiative in Fall 2013.
• Texas Center for Nursing Workforce Studies and Texas Board of Nursing worked collaboratively with Texas Team to build dashboard indicators and to continue to track and report nursing workforce data.

Archived Press Releases:

• Texas Receives National Grant to Build Highly Educated Nursing Workforce (Aug. 29, 2012)
• Texas Tech University Associate Professor and Kilgore College Nursing Program Director Appointed to Leadership Positions with Statewide Initiative to Transform Health Care though Nursing (June 9, 2014)
• Texas Kicks Off Effort to Increase Number of Nurses Serving on Boards of Directors (July 24, 2014)
• Texas is One of Nine States Selected for New Grant to Continue Building a More Highly Educated Nursing Workforce (Aug. 7, 2014)
• Texas Nurse Selected as Recipient of National Leadership Award (Nov. 18, 2014)
• Funds Raised through Gala Honoring Texas Nurses Will Support State Efforts to Advance Health Care through Nursing (Dec. 11, 2014)
• Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center Hospital Chief Nursing Officer Is New Co-Lead in Statewide Initiative to Transform Health Care though Nursing (June 27, 2015)