On June 4, Nurse Leaders in the Boardroom, an initiative of the Center to Champion Nursing in America (CCNA) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, hosted a series of moderated panel discussions in Providence, Rhode Island, on the valuable roles nurses can play in the boardroom.
Before she sat at the head of the boardroom table, Amy Freeman, whose nursing career spans more than 30 years, provided direct patient care in an intensive care step-down unit. According to Freeman, this experience is an important factor in gaining the respect and trust of patients and health care providers. She also notes that her understanding of patient care and the need for collaboration within health care organizations is an advantage that many hospital CEOs do not have.
The role that nurses play in providing quality health care to all Americans is not lost on Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell. In his acceptance speech as the new advisory chair for the American Academy of Nursing’s (AAN) Raise the Voice Campaign ,Rendell promised to continue working to help shape public health policy that will benefit all citizens now and in the future. The governor noted that the Commonwealth’s Prescription for Pennsylvania had dramatically expanded the scope of practice for nurses so they could provide services to the full extent of their training.
There’s a nurse in your health care future and by 2025 nurses and nurse practitioners will deliver virtually all primary care in the United States, this according to Thomas Aschenbrener in an opinion piece posted on OregonLive.com, where he challenges all health care professionals to become visionaries. And according to Aschenbrener, who is president Northwest Health Foundation, Oregon will lead the way by shaping a health system of the future that will serve as a model for cost management, quality and patient satisfaction.
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.
Susan Reinhard, PhD, RN, FAAN, CCNA’s chief strategist and AARP senior vice president and director of the AARP Public Policy Institute, has been appointed to the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research (NACNR) by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. NACNR is the principal advisory board for the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR). Dr.
The RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the IOM has released the workshop summary of the second, in a series of three forums. The December forum, held at the Community College of Philadelphia, continued the examination of the challenges facing the nursing profession: care in the community, community health, public health, primary care, and long-term care.
Empowering nurses to become leaders in patient safety is the focus of a new Quality Safety Investigator Program designed by nursing faculty at the University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City). This novel approach is touted as a way to encourage nurses to take leading roles in championing patient safety, which will not only benefit health care consumers, but health care professionals as well. Learn more about this program in the
The Center to Champion Nursing in America is seeking high quality, original photos that accurately portray 21st century nursing. The goal is to create a repository of photos of nurses across all health care settings in professional practice and leadership roles, as well as in recruitment and retention activities, and nursing education.
One winning photograph will be featured in an AARP print and/or web publication. All qualified photos will make up CCNA’s new public repository of images.
On June 4, Nurse Leaders in the Boardroom, an initiative of the Center to Champion Nursing in America (CCNA) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, hosted a series of moderated panel discussions in Providence, Rhode Island, on the valuable roles nurses can play in the boardroom. 
