Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action

The Initiative on the Future of Nursing

Nurses are Transforming American Health Care

In: American Journal of Nursing
By: Shalala DE, and Bolton LB
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 9/1/2009

Nurses play a significant role in health care reform. The Initiative on the Future of Nursing, a new partnership of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute of Medicine, aims to create a blueprint for action over the coming years to outline nursing’s critical role in delivering the care at the front lines of a redesigned system.

This editorial invites nurses to participate in the debate by sharing their innovative reform ideas with the initiative.

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