The year 2015 marks an important half-way point for the ambitious goals set forth in 2010 in the Institute of Medicine’s Future of Nursing Report, which included eight recommendations to transform the nursing profession.
BE COUNTED AS A LEADER
Leadership is one of the key pillars for the New Jersey Action Coalition. A survey is being distributed asking you to identify if you are currently on a board of any kind. We want to get a count of NJ nurses engagement. A link for the survey can be found on our website. The goal nationally is 10,000 nurses by 2020. Join in and be counted!!!
Associations, Foundations and Corporations are solving the nursing shortage problem in multiple ways as described by Halldale’s US News Editor, Lori Ponoroff. Full article in MedSim Volume 4 • Issue 2.2015.
As dean of Seton Hall University College of Nursing, Marie C. Foley, PhD, RN, CNL, is focusing on changes in healthcare to prepare nursing students for the future.
“What we teach today becomes outdated tomorrow,” said Foley, who was appointed in February. “We really need to teach our students to think, and where to access the most up-to-date information so that they can make critical judgments and clinical decisions.”
A message from Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Since we began sharing the vision of building a Culture of Health, we have seen individuals, organizations, and communities work more closely together to give people across the nation more opportunities to pursue the healthiest lives they can. Your dedication to creating new and different expectations of health and well-being has energized this positive change. But the work has just begun. Let’s continue advancing this movement together, weaving the many threads of our nation’s health into the richly textured fabric we call American life.