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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June 28, 2012 | Story
Shelia Spurlock-White has developed a prep course for licensed practical nurses in the hope that better educated LPNs will lead to better elder care. RWJF, she says, inspires her in this mission.
February 27, 2012 | Story
Advocates for the elderly warn that there aren't enough nurses with basic competency in geriatric care to meet the surging demand for their services.
July 14, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
The 2010 IOM Nursing Initiative report goes hand-in-hand with the 2008 IOM report, Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce, which addresses the critical need to ensure that our entire health care workforce, including the c ...
October 8, 2009 | Story
Residents of the Tohono O'odham Nation had to leave the reservation if they needed skilled nursing care until Frances Stout helped establish the first skilled-care facility for aging Native Americans on the Tohono O'odham Reservation.
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.
April 8, 2013 | Story
Nurse Faculty Scholar puts ‘handymen’ to work turning older people’s homes into safe, healthy environments.
February 7, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
RWJF Nurse Faculty Scholar Jennifer Bellot writes about losing her grandmother to complications from a medical error.
February 6, 2013 | Story
RWJF Nurse Faculty Scholar finds that stroke survivors who practice Tai Chi may be less likely to fall.
August 29, 2011 | Story
RWJF Executive Nurse Fellow Alum Keela Herr is exploring ways to ensure research she and others conducted is put into practice, so fewer seniors will suffer.
January 24, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The National Institute on Aging, the National Institutes of Health Pain Consortium and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration held panel discussions in 2010 to identify strategies for promoting safe pharmacological management of pain in older people. ...