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Nursing Student Aspires to Life Outside his 'Comfort Zone'
RWJF Scholar Luis Sanchez overcomes poverty and other hurdles to break barriers as a Latino nurse.
Nurses & Nursing
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More Nurses Climbing Education Ladder
A more highly educated nursing workforce will help meet future health care demands.
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RWJF Scholar Pioneers Innovative Program to Help Low-Income Elderly Age at Home
Nurse Faculty Scholar puts ‘handymen’ to work turning older people’s homes into safe, healthy environments.
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Modern-Day Crystal Ball Could Revolutionize Neonatal Care
Searing experience led RWJF Nurse Faculty Scholar to use ‘glass orb’ technology to create a tool to detect premature infant pain.
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In Indiana, Physicians and Nurses Work Together to Transform Nursing
Nurses, doctors, and other health professionals team up in the Heartland to improve health and health care.
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RWJF Interdisciplinary Research Initiative Provides Roadmap for Improving Patient Care
Seven-year initiative built research science, provided definitive evidence of nursing’s contributions to improving care, identified new areas for research, and challenges.
Our Strategy
Nurses manage entire care delivery processes in hospitals, long-term care settings, and communities. We are working to ensure that nurses can contribute as full partners in a reformed health care system that meets current and emerging needs.
A National Blueprint for Improvement
The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health
This Institute of Medicine report, "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health," is a thorough examination of the nursing workforce. The recommendations offered in the report focus on the critical intersection between the health needs of diverse, changing patient populations across the lifespan and the actions of the nursing workforce. These recommendations are intended to support efforts to improve the health of the U.S. population through the contributions nurses can make to the delivery of care.
Get the report View all researchQuick Facts From This Study
- There are 3 million licensed RNs in the U.S.; nearly 85% actively work in nursing.
- As of 2008, more than 375,000 women and men in the workforce had received a master's degree.
- More than 28,000 had gone on to receive either a doctorate in nursing or a nursing-related doctoral degree.
The number of #nurses is expected to increase 26% by 2020. We'll need more than 495,500 new nurses to meet demand.
PARTNERS IN CHANGE
- Campaign for Action. This is a collaborative effort to implement solutions to the challenges facing the nursing profession, so every person will have access to quality, patient-centered care.
- Academic Progression in Nursing (APIN): This initiative, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is advancing state and regional strategies to create a more highly educated nursing workforce.
RWJF Nursing Programs
Learn more about our efforts to promote nurses and nursing:
- Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education
- Executive Nurse Fellows
- Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative
- New Careers in Nursing
- New Jersey Nursing Initiative
- Nurse Faculty Scholars
- Nursing and Health Policy Collaborative at the University of New Mexico
- Partners Investing in Nursing's Future
- Public Health Nursing
- Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
- RN Work Project
Perspectives on Nursing
These videos:
- take you to the Campaign for Action Summit on the Future of Nursing;
- demonstrate the many roles nurses play as researchers, administrators, educators, soldiers, and more;
- provide a close-up view of RWJF's Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative.
Leaders in the Field
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Shining a spotlight on nursing's best and brightest
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Shanda Johnson
Exploring effects of neighborhood safety, family, and acculturation on Latina adolescent health.
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John Pederzolli
Bringing lessons learned from over a decade of chronic pain to the nursing profession
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Terrah Foster
Helping children with terminal illness create living legacies
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Kathleen Hickey
Nurse scientist blazing a trail in genetics and genomics
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Margo Brooks Carthon
Working to improve nursing school 'pipeline' programs
Resources
Sharing Nursing's Knowledge
This monthly e-newsletter features news and information about nursing, including research, conferences, grants, and more.
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Charting Nursing's Future
This policy brief series, published periodically throughout the year, addresses major topics in nursing policy, from the nursing faculty shortage to the role of nurses in designing health care facilities to implementation of the landmark Institute of Nursing Future of Nursing report.
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2010 Gallup Nursing Survey
"Nursing Leadership from Bedside to Boardroom" explored the views of opinion leaders on the role America's nurses can and should play in our health care system.
