Dec 9, 2014 | News Roundup
The New Jersey Nursing Initiative’s news roundup highlights nursing and health care stories from around the state.
Experts focus on health, equitable communities (Edison Sentinel)
Education, income and race can mean the difference between health and illness, and even life and death. “We know it’s there; the question is what to do about it,” said Dr. Robert Like, professor and director at the Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Medical School. Recognizing the persistent health disparities among communities throughout the state, the “Building Healthy, Equitable Communities Conference” sought to equip participants with the resources to work toward eliminating such inequities.
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Dec 2, 2014 | News Roundup
The following is the New Jersey Nursing Initiative (NJNI) weekly news roundup, highlighting nursing and health care stories from around the state.
New award recognizes New Jersey nursing educator for leading change (Nurse.com)
Maria Torchia LoGrippo, PhD, MSN, BSN, a nursing educator at Rutgers University, Newark, and Seton Hall University, South Orange, is one of 10 recipients of the new Breakthrough Leaders in Nursing Award created by the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, a joint initiative of AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. LoGrippo, an NJNI scholar alumna, and nine other nurses are being honored for extraordinary efforts to improve the health and lives of people in their communities.
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Nov 14, 2014 | News Roundup
The following is the New Jersey Nursing Initiative (NJNI) weekly news roundup, highlighting nursing and health care stories from around the state.
Jersey City Mayor Wants to Put Municipality Ahead of the Health Curve (NJ Spotlight)
A livable city doesn’t just mean walkability, economic development, and access to entertainment. It also means a healthy city. In Jersey City, Mayor Steven Fulop’s administration is using several methods to make the city an example for the entire state of how to prioritize the health of its residents, ranging from increased access to health care to making it easier for residents to shop for nutritious food.
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Nov 4, 2014 | News Roundup
The following is the New Jersey Nursing Initiative (NJNI) weekly news roundup, highlighting nursing and health care stories from around the state.
Keeping Coalitions Together to Help Improve Community Health (NJ Spotlight)
Overcoming the many factors that can make community coalitions unsustainable is the focus of a new grant program from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Plainsboro-based organization that is the largest foundation in the country focused solely on health. The Communities Moving to Action program aims to help 10 community coalitions across the state build the coordination and cooperation needed to make a lasting difference in a wide range of areas affecting health.
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Oct 28, 2014 | News Roundup
The following is the New Jersey Nursing Initiative (NJNI) weekly news roundup, highlighting nursing and health care stories from around the state.
COMMENTARY: Many hospitals lack communication skills (The Courier-Post)
An Oct. 3 piece in The New York Times about the Texas Ebola case provides a glimpse into longstanding issues within U.S. hospitals. In this particular case, the Ebola patient was mistakenly sent home even though the fact that he had been in Liberia had been documented in the medical record by a nurse. Nurses, physicians, and other health care providers are all too familiar with the myriad IT issues related to the use of electronic health records.
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