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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August 2, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The opportunity to participate in this international event which celebrated the accomplishments of some very amazing people was a proud and humbling moment. Humbling because I never expected something this significant would happen to me. However, it ...
June 1, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
I left the building to breathe and had scarcely been outside for more than a moment when someone had come to retrieve me, saying the young woman and her mother had asked for me. It seemed even the air had changed since I had left a moment before. Th ...
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.
May 12, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
By Susan Hassmiller, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N. Director of the Initiative on the Future of Nursing and RWJF Senior Adviser for Nursing Last summer, I fulfilled a lifelong dream in journeying to London and Turkey to follow in Florence Nightingale’s foots ...
June 1, 2007 | Journal Article
As demand for nurses continues to grow, there has been an increase in the number of foreign-educated nurses choosing to work in the United States.
September 1, 2007 | Program Result
AcademyHealth examined available trend data on immigration to the United States of nurses educated abroad, and assessed the policy implications of this nation's growing reliance on foreign nurses.