The primary goal of the Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) is to generate, disseminate and translate research to understand how nurses contribute to and can improve the quality of patient care. The program, led by Mary Naylor, Ph.D, R.N., F.A.A.N. and Mark Pauly, Ph.D. of the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with Lori Melichar, Ph.D. and her colleagues at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, supports interdisciplinary teams of nurse scholars and scholars from other disciplines to address the gaps in knowledge about the relationship between nursing and health care quality.

Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education (EIN): The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's EIN program is inviting applications for research projects studying nursing faculty issues that are critical to achieving the recommendations outlined in the 2010 Institute of Medicine report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.  Proposals will be accepted until November 16, 2011, 3:00 p.m. ET. This Call for Propsals is available via RWJF.org.