Read more about the recently released (September 1, 2010) “A Summary of the February 2010 Forum on the Future of Nursing: Education – Institute of Medicine.” The Forum, which was convened in February 2010, was hosted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Initiative on the Future of Nursing and focused on issues relevant to nursing education, including innovations, new models, barriers and opportunities. The information and perspectives discussed at this forum will inform a final report on the future of nursing, expected to be released in October 2010.
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Putting Innovations in Nursing Education to the Test
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.”
National Study of Nurse Faculty
The NPO has recently been awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to conduct a national study of nurse faculty. The project will survey approximately 6,000 nurse faculty members employed at 300 randomly selected nursing education programs representative of the population by program type (BSN and ADN) and region of the country. The aims of the study are to provide benchmark measures for assessing interventions supported by EIN, provide a yardstick for nursing programs around the country to compare their faculty to those at similar institutions in their region, and yield a baseline snapshot for guiding and assessing the progress of national efforts to improve the work-life and retention of nurse faculty.
