Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Announces $20 Million Grant to Support Nurse PhD Scientists
June 3, 2013 | News Release
$20 million program will help prepare nurses to get PhDs and become scientists, leaders, and faculty.
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Measuring Success for Health Care Quality Improvement Interventions
December 1, 2012 | Journal Article
In an effort to evaluate quality improvement (QI) programs, self-reported versus externally rated measures of QI success led to different results. This study suggests that, ideally, evaluations of QI efforts should use externally rated measures.
Pipeline, Profession & Practice: Community-Based Dental Education
November 19, 2012 | Program Result Report
RWJF's Dental Pipeline Program helped dental schools increase access to dental care for underserved populations through expanded community-based education and recruitment of underrepresented minority and low-income students.
Human Rights Advocate Works to Support Latino Victims of Sexual Assault and Violence
October 17, 2012 | News Release
RWJF honors Cristina Perez, MA, with a 2012 Community Health Leaders Award.
Finding an AED in an Emergency
September 7, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Read a blog post about an initiative to identify and map automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in Philadelphia.
Nurses Stepping Up to Solve Primary Care Challenges
August 29, 2012 | Story
Latest Charting Nursing's Future brief highlights groundbreaking examples of nurses' changing roles.
For Gunshot Survivors, Wounds That Don't Heal
July 25, 2012 | Story
RWJF scholar examines how victims’ lives are disfigured, physically and ‘existentially,’ by the lingering effects of gunshot injuries.
The Pennsylvania Action Coalition: Voices Carrying a Campaign
June 19, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Dr. Sue Hassmiller, RN, PhD, FAAN, director of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, described the scope of health care challenges, such as aging, chronic disease, faculty shortages, and poor access to care in rural areas, that our nurses will ...
The Pennsylvania Action Coalition Launch: Students Speak Out
June 19, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Question: Can you explain some of the major goals of your organization, what the group dynamic is like, and some of the roles within the group? Lena Gayraud: The main goal of the Penn Nursing Medical Student Alliance (PNMSA) is to foster interdiscip ...
Game Solutions for Health Care: A Spectacularly Transformative Learning Experience
June 15, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The program generated a forum for faculty and students that spectacularly transformed the learning experience. Students learned new language and ways to think differently about problems and solutions. Students learned by doing and developed an unexp ...