Thursday, September 17, 2009

Initiative on the Future of Nursing - Editorial


This month's American Journal of Nursing features an editorial about RJWF's Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the IOM. Initiative chairperson Donna Shalala and vice chairperson Linda Burnes Bolton have co-authored the piece which outlines the ways that nursing care is transforming American health care. The authors explain concerns about the effect of the nurse shortage on health care reform.

Click here to read the editorial.
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Donna E. Shalala is the former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the president of the University of Miami and chairperson of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the Institute of Medicine. Linda Burnes Bolton is the chief nursing officer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, and the vice chairperson of the RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing. The authors acknowledge the contribution of Gina Ivey, communications director at the RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing, in the writing of this article.

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