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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February 11, 2009 | Story
This alliance develops practical solutions to providing better training, supervision and compensation, while addressing clinician and faculty shortages to enable health care providers and caregivers better serve the unique care needs of older adults.
February 9, 2009 | Program Result
Strategic Partnerships LLC conducted an assessment to determine existing and planned initiatives in nurse retention and education, and identified opportunities for RWJF to partner in projects with some of them.
January 28, 2009 | Program Result
Faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health established the Resource Center, to support the growth and development of State Pain Initiatives.
January 14, 2009 | Program Result
The Association of American Medical Colleges assembled a group of health care faculty to design a curriculum on interdisciplinary teamwork, so that faculty could effect curriculum changes across professional schools.
January 1, 2009 | Book
This chapter of "Nursing Policy Research: Turning Evidence-Based Research into Health Policy" reviews the conceptual and practical issues related to conducting surveys, including development of the research topic and survey questions, maximizing data collection, and coping with common problems.
December 16, 2008 | Story
Sometimes referred to as the "Oscars of health and medicine," the FREDDIE Awards are presented annually at a black-tie gala in Philadelphia.
November 20, 2008 | Program Result
Researchers interviewed 30 nurse managers at six medical centers to elicit signature individual and organizational factors that encourage engagement among nurse managers, that is, job longevity and excellence in job performance.
October 30, 2008 | Video/Story
A program to promote work-based learning for quality care.
October 17, 2008 | Program Result
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and North General Hospital trained physicians to provide culturally sensitive palliative and hospice care to underserved, minority populations and to provide such care to residents of Harlem and other communities.
October 7, 2008 | Story
An interview with RWJF's senior adviser for nursing, originally published in the September-October 2008 issue of American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Syllabus