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New Reports Highlight Oral Health Innovations, Preventive Care Models

Reviews spotlight prevention and access models at clinical and community settings.

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A Closer Look at the Quality of Cardiac Care in the United States

Each year, more than a million of them choose to undergo bypass surgery or angioplasty – procedures in which the effectiveness is often overestimated and the dangers are underestimated. RWJF Investigator Award recipient David S. Jones, author of Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care, takes a closer look at this trend.

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RWJF Announces Support For Two New Studies on Nurses’ Scope of Practice

New grants will fund research into barriers to nurses’ ability to practice to full extent of their education and training.

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Twenty Nurse Leaders Chosen for Prestigious National Nurse Fellowship

RWJF Executive Nurse Fellows program provides leaders with professional development, coaching, education.

Does Physician Verbal Abuse Create a Bad Working Environment—Or the Reverse?

Study finds negative work environment characteristics are associated with more physician verbal abuse as well as nurse abuse.

RWJF Announces its 2013–2014 Health Policy Fellows

Celebrates 40-year legacy of developing health professionals into Capitol Hill influencers.

Policy Brief Lays Out Ways to Tap the Full Skills & Experience of APRNs

The majority of states currently place significant restrictions on APRNs, causing delays in treatment.

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Many State Health Departments Struggle to Fill Nursing Vacancies

New surveys identify compelling need to advance education and training, increase diversity, and improve recruitment of public health nurses.

NCIN Awards Grants for 400 Accelerated Degree Nursing Scholarships

Program support to 52 schools of nursing will aid second-career nurses from groups underrepresented in the profession.

Verbal Abuse by Colleagues Reduces New Nurses’ Commitment to Employer, Job

Study finds new nurses in Magnet hospitals experience less verbal abuse.

RWJF Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program Director to Retire

Gavin, who has served as national program director since 1993, will relinquish his role as director this year.

RWJF Launches Nursing Scholars Program

$20 million program will help prepare nurses to get PhDs and become scientists, leaders, and faculty.

RWJF to Announce Multi-Million Dollar Nursing Program

Leaders from the RWJF, the Independence Blue Cross Foundation, and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing will host a reception to...

New Jersey Nursing Initiative Names New Program Directors

Aline Holmes of N.J. Hospital Association, Susan Salmond of UMDNJ-School of Nursing to lead innovative effort to address state's nurse facul...

Nine N.J. Nursing Scholars Complete Advanced Degree Programs

New Jersey Nursing Initiative’s first PhD graduates join pipeline of nurses prepared to fill faculty positions in the Garden State.

RWJF Announces Future of Nursing National Research Agenda Grant Recipients

Research teams funded to study nurse residency programs, impact of laws and regulations regarding advanced practice nurses, future primary c...

Adequate and Stable Nurse Staffing Is Key to Improving Care for Heart Failure Patients

New study finds nurse staffing plays important role in implementation of measures that improve care for heart failure patients in rural hosp...

Women Who Give Birth as Teens at Higher Risk of Obesity

New study by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar links teen pregnancy with obesity later in adulthood.

Thirty Primary Care Practices Selected as Exemplary Models of Workforce Efficiency and Innovation

Spotlighted primary care practices provide insights for improving health care quality.

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