Practice & Access to Care

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is coordinating a unique, multi-funder initiative to identify, generate, synthesize and disseminate evidence essential to informing efforts to implement the recommendations outlined in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” and to contribute to the Campaign for Action’s goal of advancing comprehensive change in health care for patients and the country.  The purpose of this activity is to increase and focus national attention on a common research agenda related

Full Partners: Collaboration Across Professions Improves Patient Outcomes

"Interprofessional collaboration is a critical component in fully leveraging the potential of nurses to improve health care delivery. It's more than two or more health professionals working side by side; it's about respect and understanding.”

Our Wednesday Feature gave you a look at the stories behind the photos that you submitted for our 2011 photo contest.  You were asked to identify one of four categories for entries that aligned with a recommendation area of the IOM future of nursing report as well as submit photos that highlighted health care in rural areas. As a result of these entries we are able to add more images to the CCNA public photo repository representing nurses, patients, and their families across health care, home, and education settings

Submitted by Barry Kornacki, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Martinsburg, WV

The patient in this picture is enrolled in the Care Coordination/Home Telehealth program managed by the Veterans Administration's Martinsburg, WV, Medical Center.

Embracing the importance of the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, the North Carolina Medical Journal (NCMJ) sponsored a summit of North Carolina nurse leaders to review and discuss the recommendations.

Excela Health Care Transitions program, located in Westmoreland County in southwestern Pennsylvania is a recent recipient of a 2011 Excellence Award from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for demonstrating reduction in hospital readmissions among older adults.

This week twenty-one state-based collaborations will join fifteen already working as Action Coalitions (ACs), convened to ensure that Americans will have a health care workforce that is prepared to deliver high quality patient-centered care. With technical assistance from the Center to Champion Nursing in America, the ACs will create long-term partnerships through which the Campaign for Action can enlist support from a broad spectrum of health care professionals, and stakeholders from government, business, academia, and philanthropy.