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May 10, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
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 never aspired to be a nurse. Quite conversely, as a Filipino I attached a stigma to the nursing field conside ...
April 25, 2012 | Story
Leaders' Link Newsletter: March/April 2012
April 16, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Have you signed up to receive Sharing Nursing’s Knowledge? The monthly Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) e-newsletter will keep you up to date on the latest nursing news, research and trends. Here are descriptions of some of the stories in the M ...
April 11, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
I was also fortunate enough to be surrounded by a supportive family, including my parents who helped out with the kids, and friends. Along the way, I encountered some negative people who doubted my ability to become an RN, but I just let that negati ...
April 4, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Robert Otto Valdez, PhD, is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) professor of family & community medicine and economics at the University of New Mexico. He serves as executive director of the RWJF Center for Health Policy at the University of N ...
March 22, 2012 | Story
RWJF Scholar escaped Taliban as a child and overcame oppression, misogyny and deep poverty before coming to U.S. and earning bachelor's degree in nursing.
February 3, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Once I received an acceptance letter from the Master’s Entry Program at William F. Connell School of Nursing of Boston College and was presented with the opportunity to become a scholar for the New Careers in Nursing (NCIN) scholarship program, I re ...
January 25, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
As the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Physician Faculty Scholars program comes to a close this year, RWJF has released a powerful new publication that tells the story of how the initiative filled a critical gap in physician career development ...
January 10, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
HCB: Speaking of your patients, you write in the book about some of them. Can you share how they’ve impacted you? Quinones-Hinojosa: I always focus on the things I can learn from my patients. How can I give them hope and how can I talk about brain s ...
January 9, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
I was deeply saddened to learn that Margaret E. “Maggie” Mahoney, a pioneer in health care and philanthropy, passed away recently. As head of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Clinical Scholars program, an influential and acclaimed physician ...