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Nursing Student Aspires to Life Outside his 'Comfort Zone'

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.

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More Nurses Climbing Education Ladder

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

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

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

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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Quick Facts From This Study

The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health
  • 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.

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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.

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Read about the Campaign for Action's progress. >

Read about the work of the Campaign for Action's state Action Coalitions. >

Leaders in the Field

  • Shining a spotlight on nursing's best and brightest

  • Shanda Johnson

    Shanda Johnson

    Exploring effects of neighborhood safety, family, and acculturation on Latina adolescent health.

  • John Pederzolli

    John Pederzolli

    Bringing lessons learned from over a decade of chronic pain to the nursing profession

  • Terrah L. Foster, Ph.D., R.N.

    Terrah Foster

    Helping children with terminal illness create living legacies

  • Katherine Hickey

    Kathleen Hickey

    Nurse scientist blazing a trail in genetics and genomics

  • Margo Brooks Carthon

    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.

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Human Capital

Nursing News Digest

Nursing on the Human Capital Blog

  • A Personal Mission: Bridging the Oral Health Care Gap May 2, 2013
  • New Data: Nursing Profession Is Bigger, More Diverse, Better Educated May 2, 2013
  • Human Capital News Roundup: Medication errors affecting children with cancer, particulate matter, the needs of urban communities, and more. May 2, 2013

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Nurse Leaders Mount Campaign in Large State with Small-Town Feel

Nurses and nursing champions in Montana tap personal networks to improve health and health care by transforming the profession.

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Transforming Nursing to Create a "Culture of Health"

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, RWJF president and CEO, kicked off the annual summit of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action by joining a con...

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Strengthening Rural Nursing

RWJF scholars and grantees spearhead projects to improve access to high quality nursing care in remote areas.

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RWJF Nurse Scientist Discovers New Health Benefits of Tai Chi

RWJF Nurse Faculty Scholar finds that stroke survivors who practice Tai Chi may be less likely to fall.

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Watch the Video, Earn the Credits

Learn how to improve care transitions and prevent avoidable hospital readmissions, and pick up nursing and medical education con-ed credits.

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Blog Posts

Heroic Nurse – the Last Surviving 'Angel of Bataan and Corregidor' – Passes Away

Mildred Dalton Manning, the last surviving member of a group of U.S. Army and Navy nurses taken prisoner in the Philippines at the start of ...

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Care About Your Care

A national conversation highlighting efforts to improve care transitions, reduce avoidable hospital readmissions, and lift overall quality o...

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A Personal Mission: Bridging the Oral Health Care Gap

Raised in a small town in Alabama, SMDEP alumna Monique Trice writes about why her community's geographic makeup has "set the stage for an o...

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I Believe This About Nursing...

Angelo Llanes: For the first two decades of my life, I definitely did not want to do it. “Until my senior year at Rutgers University, I had ...

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RWJF Scholar Alum Discusses Accountable Care Organizations

RWJF Clinical Scholars alumnus Elliot Fisher discusses the origins of ACOs and the effort to develop them in the nation’s health care system...

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Quotable Quotes About Nursing, April 2013

New and notable quotes on nurse practitioners, the role of nurses in helping patients who are terminal, nurse/physician collaboration, and m...

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“Call the Midwife:” Horrors and Humanity in 1950s London

The strange pull of this series is its humanity, not its horrors.

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