Advocates Call on Nurses to Take Leading Role in Palliative Care
September 27, 2012 | Story
As demand for palliative care grows, practicing nurses, nurse leaders and nurse researchers are needed.
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Meet the New Jersey Nursing Initiative
August 29, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
More than 1300 New Jersey nursing students in graduate study are receiving assistance through the Nursing Academic Resource Center of New Jersey (ARC). The ARC is an online tool that helps graduate nursing students with their writing; its goal is to ...
Will the Primary Care Shortage Get Worse?
August 14, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Last week, NPR aired a story examining the prognosis for primary care providers in the United States. The country will have tens of thousands fewer health care providers than it needs to care for its the population by 2015, and the shortage is expec ...
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Program Announces Grants Supporting Evaluations of Strategies for Addressing Nurse Faculty Shortage
August 9, 2012 | News Release
Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education program awards grants to support research on doctoral education and production of faculty.
Center to Champion Nursing in America
August 2, 2012 | Program Result Report
The Center to Champion Nursing in America is an RWJF-AARP initiative to strengthen the nation's nursing workforce. It coordinates a national campaign to implement the Institute of Medicine's Future of Nursing report recommendations.
New Web-Based Tool Provides Information Critical to Addressing the Nurse Faculty Shortage
July 26, 2012 | Story
Nurse Faculty Query lets users dynamically explore findings from the national survey on faculty work-life.
Former Surgeon General: Affordable Care Act an Opportunity to Improve Oral Health Care
July 24, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The Affordable Care Act will allow more Americans to access dental health services, former Surgeon General and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars almnus David Satcher, MD, PhD, said recently at forum on unmet oral health needs, but the ...
Nursing Education Still Hindered by Capacity Issues
June 20, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Schools of nursing across the country continued to turn qualified students away in the 2010-2011 school year because of a lack of faculty and clinical sites, a survey from the National League of Nursing (NLN) confirms. The annual survey of nursing s ...
New on RWJF.org
May 29, 2012 | Story
Read about Partners Investing in Nursing's Future, see what's new on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Human Capital Blog and the Initiative on the Future of Nursing website, and more.
Nursing as a 'Second Act'
May 29, 2012 | Story
Second-career nurses can help curb nurse and nurse faculty shortages and are valuable additions to the nursing workforce, experts say.