Michigan Center for Nursing Presents Sen. Stabenow with Award

Submitted by Staff on August 15, 2011
August 15, 2011

The Michigan Center for Nursing, a partner of the Michigan Action Coalition, presented Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) with their "Friend of Nursing" Award that the Michigan Nursing Summit on Friday, August 5, 2011. 

Throughout her career, Senator Stabenow has been a champion for nurses in Michigan and across the country.  At the event, nurses said they chose to honor Stabenow for long history of standing with them and the patients they serve, her efforts to help more young people become nurses to address the nation’s nursing shortage, and her strong support of quality health care for Michigan families.

Read the full story on the Michigan Center for Nursing website. 

Campaign Highlights, July 2011

Submitted by Staff on July 18, 2011
July 18, 2011

Read an update of Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action activities and highlights from the past months. 

 

Partner with Nurses for a Healthier California

Submitted by Staff on July 15, 2011
Start Date: 
August 4, 2011

Partner with Nurses for a Healthy California - to discuss with other leaders, health-care professionals and consumers the necessary actions to improve health in our state and the role nurses should take to advance this vision.

The two-hour event includes lunch, a presentation of nurses who promote health in our communities and a panel discussion with a variety of the state’s health-care leaders to identify priorities to improve California’s health. This is part of a series of discussions convened by the California Action Coalition, a statewide group formed last fall to implement health-care improvement in California. 

RWJF Nursing News: Memo to Aspiring Nurse Executives and Leaders: "This is Your Time!"

Submitted by Staff on July 6, 2011
July 6, 2011

Veteran nurse leaders see new potential for nurses to serve in executive-level and leadership positions.

Read the full story on RWJF.org. 

Story excerpt from RWJF:

Ever since Florence Nightingale first came to the aid of wounded soldiers with her legendary lamp a century and a half ago, nurses have broken through some of the toughest social barriers and risen to positions of prominence, improving and saving lives, conducting groundbreaking research, and revolutionizing health and health care along the way.

First National Day of Dialogue will bring together experts to examine the education of registered nurses.

Submitted by Staff on June 28, 2011
Start Date: 
June 29, 2011

Nurse.com, published by Gannett Healthcare Group, will host an expert panel discussion of the education recommendations in the Institute of Medicine's 2010 report, "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health." The first National Day of Dialogue on the future of nursing and healthcare will be held before a live audience between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. ET on June 29, 2011, in McLean, Va. The event also will be live-streamed at Nurse.com/FutureofNursing.

The National Day of Dialogue will feature a panel of speakers representing such broad-based stakeholders as the federal government, schools of nursing and healthcare organizations, who will address questions regarding the IOM’s recommendations for expanding nursing education to meet increasingly complex healthcare needs. The panelists include:

Nursing’s Contributions to Care Coordination and Transitional Care: State of the Science

Research Briefs about Workforce, Leadership, Practice

Research brief to synthesize the evidence examining nursing’s contribution to care coordination and transitional care.

RB- Nursing ContributionsBackground
Author Information: 

Mary Naylor, Linda Aiken, Ellen Kurtzman, and Danielle Olds

Nurse Managed Health Centers (NMHCs)

Research Briefs about Leadership, Practice

Research brief to describe NMHCs as a source of primary care.

RB- Nurse Managed Health CtrsBackground
Author Information: 

Christine Kovner and Salimah Walani

Research Brief: Trends in delegation of tasks to nurses by top physicians

Research Briefs about Leadership, Practice

This research brief looks to test the hypothesis that highly efficient internists, those that deliver high quality care at a lower cost, have different approaches to delegating tasks to nurses and other office-based clinical staff than average performers.

RB- Delegation PracticesBackground:
  • There is minimal understanding of the individual physician factors that drive greater cost-efficiency of health care without sacrificing quality.
  • Some of this variation may be attributable to variation in utilization of nurses, including nature of task delegation.
Author Information: 

Julia Adler-Milstein

Message from Sue Hassmiller, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.

Videos about Workforce, Leadership, Education, Practice

Susan Hassmiller, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., director of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action and senior adviser for nursing at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, describes the work of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action.

University of California San Francisco Holds Discussion on IOM Nursing Report

Videos about Leadership, Education, Practice

On February 2, 2011 UCSF held a panel discussion to provide an overview of Institute of Medicine report.  The event outlined goals for California, the UC Schools of Nursing, and UCSF in implementing key recommendations of the report including expanding leadership opportunities for nurses, increasing the number of nurses with BA and PhD degrees by 2020, and making nurses “full partners’’ with physicians and other health care professionals in redesigning health care in the United States. 

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