Press Releases

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s National Program Director for Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) has been appointed as one of four new members of The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), an independent Congressional agency established to advise the U.S. Congress on issues affecting the Medicare program. Naylor is the Marian S.

CCNA's Nursing Council member, the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), has announced that over $2 million in awards will be handed out to its latest cohort of fellows and scholars in academic geriatric nursing. Each of the eight Claire M. Fagin postdoctoral fellows will receive $120,000 to support their career development and eleven predoctoral scholars will each receive $100,000 to help launch careers in academic geriatric nursing. Read AAN’s press release here.

SILVER SPRING, MD – The American Nurses Association (ANA) is contributing to national efforts to dramatically lower the number of vaccine-preventable diseases through its new Bringing Immunity to Every Community project.

Groundbreaking New Survey Finds that Diverse Opinion Leaders Say Nurses Should Have More Influence on Health Systems and Services

Opinion Leaders Trust Nurses, but Cite Barriers to Nursing Leadership

For Immediate Release: January 5, 2010 

Best in Nursing Education Capacity Solutions to Be Featured in Series of Articles American Journal of Nursing to Profile State Practices with Proven Results

Although limited educational capacity resulted in nearly 40,000 applicants being turned away from nursing schools, 2009 marks the ninth consecutive year of  increases in the number of students enrolled in nursing degree programs. More nurses prepared to deliver high quality health care is good news for all Americans. This news comes from the latest annual survey from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). 

AARP, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) today are convening a summit of multi-stakeholder groups to identify solutions to the nurse faculty shortage that is forcing nursing schools to turn away thousands of qualified nursing candidates each year.

To help combat the looming nursing shortage, the Center to Champion Nursing in America in collaboration with the Division of Nursing in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration and the U.S. Department of Labor today are holding an “all country summit,” bringing together multi-stakeholder teams from nearly all 50 states to create solutions to the nursing shortage.

The Center to Champion Nursing in America today announced the formation of the Champion Nursing Coalition, a diverse group of organizations representing consumers, insurers, businesses, health care providers and others committed to working together to educate Americans about the nation’s severe nursing shortage and its impact on health care quality, access and cost.

University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing associate professor Julie Sochalski, PhD, RN, FAAN has been named as the new recipient of the AARP/American Academy of Nursing (AAN) Joint Fellowship program.