Resources and News
Key Publications and Resources
Blowing Open the Bottleneck: Designing New Approaches to Increase Nurse Education Capacity
In 2008, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Center to Champion Nursing in America, and the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration commissioned a paper entitled: Blowing Open the Bottleneck: Designing New Approaches to Increase Nurse Education Capacity, which provided background for participants attending the national Nursing Education Summit in June 2008. According to CCNA, the purpose of the paper is to provide a concise but comprehensive understanding of the complexity of nursing education and to stimulate innovative thinking and in order to implement creative solutions to the challenge of insufficient nursing education capacity.
Five recommendations for pre-licensure clinical nursing education
MacIntyre, R. C., Murray, T. A., Teel, C. S., & Karshmer, J. F. (2009). Five recommendations for pre-licensure clinical nursing education. Journal of Nursing Education, 48(8), 447-453. This article offers five recommendations and analysis to stimulate local, state and national conversations on new approaches to clinical nursing education:
- Re-envision nursing student-staff nurse relationships
- Re-conceptualize the faculty role
- Enhance development for school-based faculty and staff nurses working with students
- Reexamine the depth and breadth of the clinical component
- Strengthen the evidence for best practices in clinical nursing education
The Center to Champion Nursing in America
The Center to Champion Nursing in America (CCNA) has created a catalogue of videos that focus on leading issues in nursing and nursing education. The following link http://www.vimeo.com/7941844 leads to a short video profiling the Dedicated Education Unit (DEU) program at Massachusetts General Hospital as an example of an innovation in clinical nursing education.
Massachusetts Dedicated Education Unit from Champion Nursing on Vimeo.
Forum on the Future of Nursing Education
View the webcast of the February 22, 2010 Forum on the Future of Nursing: Education, hosted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the Institute of Medicine. This Forum was the third, and final, nationwide forum hosted by the Initiative and was held in Houston at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The Initiative’s committee invited individuals and organizations to submit written testimony, which might include innovations/models and barriers/opportunities, relevant to issues in nursing education and the overlapping areas of: “what we should teach, how we should teach (methodology), and where we should teach.”
Read “A Summary of the February 2010 Forum on the Future of Nursing: Education – Institute of Medicine” that was released on September 1, 2010. RWJF’s Initiative on the Future of Nursing seeks to build a blueprint for the future of nursing as part of larger efforts to reform the health care system. 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.
Other Nursing National Programs and Initiatives
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is committed to addressing the nursing shortage by supporting a range of nursing projects and initiatives through its program areas, Building Human Capital and Quality/Equity. Current RWJF nursing programs include:
Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative
To support interdisciplinary studies that address critical knowledge gaps regarding causal linkages between nursing and health care quality and to synthesize, translate and disseminate major findings to key stakeholders.
New Jersey Nursing Initiative
The New Jersey Nursing Initiative (NJNI) is a five-year, $22 million project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Foundation, working to transform nursing education in the state. Its goal is to ensure that New Jersey has the well prepared, diverse nurse faculty it needs to educate nurses to meet the demand for health and health care in the 21st century.
Partners Investing in Nursing’s Future
To support the capacity, involvement and leadership of local foundations and community partners in implementing localized nursing shortage solutions to serve as templates for communities facing similar issues nationwide.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows
To provide advanced leadership opportunities for nurses in senior executive roles in health services, public health and nursing education who aspire to lead and shape the U.S. health care system of the future.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program
To address the nursing shortage by funding scholarships in accelerated bachelor’s degree programs at nursing schools, with preference given to schools that increase the number of students in these programs or increase enrollment and retention of disadvantaged or minority students.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars
To increase the stature and academic standing of nursing faculty and draw more nurses to teaching careers by creating a cadre of national leaders in academic nursing through career development awards to outstanding junior nursing faculty.
Wisdom at Work: Retaining Experienced Nurses
To build an evidence base for what works to retain experienced nurses and develop better understanding of the impact of such interventions.
Center to Champion Nursing in America
The Center to Champion Nursing in America is an initiative of AARP, the AARP Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Center, a consumer-driven, national force for change, works to increase the nation’s capacity to educate and retain nurses who are prepared and empowered to positively impact health care access, quality, and costs.
