Education Capacity

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

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

Susan Reinhard and Susan Hassmiller, write in this Journal of Professional Nursing piece, published July 2011, an updated version of their November 2009, article by the same name, "Partners in Solutions to the Nurse Faculty Shortage," about the importance of RWJF, the AARP Foundation, and AARP joining together to raise the level of awareness of the looming shortage of nurses—and the faculty to educate them—that threatens Americans' access to quality health care across all settings.

In this picture, a senior nursing clinical student from Villanova University College of Nursing in Villanova, PA, gives instructions to a patient during her clinical practicum in April 2011. The practicum gives students experience providing nursing care to community members in the home health setting.

Using the August 2011 issue of its Charting Nursing’s Future, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) published the first a four-part miniseries brief designed to stimulate conversation on the important areas of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.

Photo of CRNA who flies throughout Nebraska providing care to rural patients.