About the Program
The United States faces an escalating shortage of nurses, driven in part by an aging population and a shortage of available spaces in schools of nursing across the nation. Widespread concern over the nurse faculty shortage is evident in the reports of prominent nursing organizations, as well as in the activities of numerous state workforce centers. As part of its commitment to address issues related to the nurse faculty shortage, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation supported the creation of Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education (EIN) to fund evaluations of nursing educational interventions. » Read More
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About the National Program Office
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation established the National Program Office (NPO) to direct Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education (EIN) in 2008. The NPO, which is located in the Center for State Health Policy at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, provides overall research direction, management, technical assistance, and monitoring of the EIN grants. Dr. Michael Yedidia serves as director of the NPO and is assisted by Joanne Fuccello, Deputy Director. In addition to administering the grantmaking process and providing technical assistance and monitoring to grantees, EIN is also a research-driven organization.» Read More
The NPO will assist EIN grantees in estimating the marginal costs associated with implementing the proposed interventions. Because of the variability in [...]
The EIN NPO has been awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to conduct a national study of nurse faculty [...]
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Read more about the recently released (September 1, 2010) “A Summary of the February 2010 Forum on the Future of Nursing: Education [...]
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Read more about EIN’s first cycle of grantees as they are profiled in RWJF’s Sharing Nursing’s Knowledge in the recently released article, “Putting Innovations in Nursing to the Test.”
EIN is pleased to announce its first cycle of two-year grants, awarded in December 2009.
The grants were made to four innovators in nursing education to support evaluations of a range of interventions in nursing education including Dedicated Education Units (DEUs); an on-line, accelerated BSN program relying on a mix of on-campus and offsite education, specially prepared clinical preceptors, and innovative course scheduling; and incorporation of a web-based virtual community into the curricula of several nursing programs across the country.
RWJF-EIN grantees will join a learning community with EIN colleagues who share the goals of conducting evaluations, generating evidence and disseminating findings to promote interventions that expand teaching capacity and promote faculty recruitment and retention in nursing education.
