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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration is accepting applications for its Nurse Education Loan Repayment Program (NELRP) now through February 15, 2012. NELRP offers Registered Nurses (RNs), advanced practice registered nurses, including Nurse Practitioners (NPs), and nurse faculty substantial economic assistance to repay a portion of their qualifying educational loans in exchange for a two-year service commitment at a Critical Shortage Facility (CSF) or an accredited school of nursing.

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

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.