Facts About the Nursing Workforce
July 27, 2010 | Issue Brief/Book
Following are key facts about the nursing workforce of today and tomorrow.
Nurses
Nursing's bond to patients and link to quality of care are pivotal, as nurses make up more that half of the health care workforce. To improve the quality of hospital care, we must also transform the quality of nursing care at the patient's bedside.
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The Nursing Profession
September 1, 2011 | Book
A comprehensive review of the nursing field that provides researchers, practitioners, foundation and government officials, students, and individuals a better understanding of the nursing field and the vital issues with which nursing professionals must grapple.
New Brief Examines Pay for Performance in Nursing
December 20, 2009 | Book
Pay for performance is gaining currency with payers, policy-makers and others. But nursing has been largely ignored.
Resources
July 13, 2009 | Book
Important research and Web links about nursing.
Robert Wood Johnson Initiative on the Future of Nursing
July 13, 2009 | Book
The Initiative on the Future of Nursing is a two-year effort of the IOM and RWJF to find solutions to the continuing challenges facing the nursing profession, and to build upon nursing-based solutions to improve quality and transform the way Americans receive health care.
Patient Safety and Quality
April 1, 2008 | Book
This handbook outlines evidence-based research to guide nurses in their efforts to improve patient safety and care. As the first line caregivers, nurses must be an integral part of improvements in patient care.
A New Era in Nursing
April 10, 2007 | Book
Transforming Care at the Bedside
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Commitment to Nursing
January 1, 2005 | Book
The nation's 2.7 million registered nurses make up the single largest part of the health care workforce and are, in many ways, the backbone of the health care system. In this chapter, the author reviews the entire range of the Foundation's nursing programs, beginning with early initiatives to build the new profession of nurse practitioner, and continuing with its programs to improve academic nursing and strengthen hospital nursing.
Improving Quality Through Nursing
January 1, 2004 | Book
Linda Aiken then addresses the role of nursing in providing quality health care, the impending gap between the need for nurses and the supply, the various ways that hospitals and other health organizations are reducing nurse staffing and increasing ...
The Teaching Nursing Home Program
January 1, 2004 | Book
This chapter of the Anthology takes a retrospective look at the Teaching Nurse Home Program, an effort funded by the Foundation between 1982 and 1987 to improve the quality of nursing home care and the clinical training of nurses by linking nursing schools with nursing homes.