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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November 7, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Education progression is an important objective for today’s nursing workforce. I have been a nurse for 40 years and, as I reflect, my career has been an exercise in progression.
June 28, 2012 | Story
State's Action Coalition helped push for new law loosening restrictions on nurse practitioners and win other accomplishments in its first year.
June 28, 2012 | Story
State's Action Coalition helped push for new law loosening restrictions on nurse practitioners and win other accomplishments in its first year.
October 3, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
The Institute of Medicine’s Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report was released on October 5, 2010. The year since has seen significant progress as nurses and other health leaders around the country work to advance its vision for ...
August 1, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
In their groundbreaking research on the essential practices of exemplary leadership, Kouzes and Posner (2007) noted that employees leave positions and move to new jobs for a variety of reasons. The single most important component of employee satisfa ...
May 11, 2011 | Story
"I started thinking this is about helping patients do the best they can do and maximizing their potential."
September 12, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The Virginia Action Coalition’s Leadership Workgroup is working with Virginia schools of nursing to ensure that leadership development is incorporated throughout nursing curricula and to identify the best practices for teaching nurses how to lead. T ...
January 27, 2011 | Program Result
Prescription for Health tested the use of tools and evidence-based models in primary care to counsel patients to change four leading behaviors associated with premature death: smoking, risky drinking, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity.
March 1, 2000 | Program Result
The Commonwealth of Virginia created a Center for Primary Care and Rural Health in the Virginia Department of Health as a central entity to coordinate public and private recruitment and retention activities.
April 1, 2007 | Program Result
Staff at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville, Va., prepared for the opening of an acute care unit located in the University of Virginia Medical Center.