A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Program
August 31, 2011
Advanced practice registered nurses are filling unmet needs for primary care, especially in rural and underserved areas. A large body of research shows they are as adept as physicians at providing primary care. Once a month, Andrea Brassard puts on her white lab coat and heads to a health care office … More
August 30, 2011
About 17% of nurses at outpatient chemotherapy infusion centers are prone to toxic drugs they deliver: study reports. This recent study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center found that toxic drugs had adverse effect on eyes and skin of the nurses that work daily with it.The study was led … More
August 25, 2011
Health care providers in Camden, Trenton and Newark are expected to launch Medicaid accountable care organizations, or ACOs, early in 2012, following the adoption of legislation that paves the way for these urban health care pilot programs to share in the Medicaid cost savings expected to result from innovative health … More
August 25, 2011
UNION COUNTY – New Jersey, like the rest of the country, is facing potentially crippling nurse and nurse faculty shortages. Without enough prospective nursing students to fill the gap or sufficient nurse faculty to teach them, the Garden State’s health would suffer. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) New Jersey Nursing … More
August 19, 2011
SOMERSET — Nine nurse externs from the surrounding area recently graduated from Somerset Medical Center’s eight-week externship program, where they gained extensive clinical patient care experiences. During their time at the medical center, each nurse extern was paired with one or two registered nurse preceptors that served as mentors. The nurse … More
August 17, 2011
Christine Yacono takes her chair and umbrella to the beach on her days off from nursing, finds a relatively quiet spot in the sand and cracks open a book.But her summertime reading is deeper than drugstore novels. “Instead of reading that light, fluffy, summer stuff, I’m reading about wound care,” said … More
August 16, 2011
Community Visiting Nurse Association (CVNA) has received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through its New Jersey Health Initiatives program to support the “CARE” program, designed to reduce the number of patients who return to the hospital as a result of difficulty managing chronic health conditions. Read More
August 12, 2011
Newark, N.J. – The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded the College of Nursing at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey a four-year grant for nearly $1.8 million to prepare future nurse faculty members. The grant is the second phase of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s multimillion dollar “New … More
August 12, 2011
PLAINFIELD — Make no mistake, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., said: While National Health Center Week is a time to celebrate the facilities whose mission is to provide quality health care to residents who otherwise might not be able to afford it, this year it’s also a time to get … More
August 2, 2011
It’s been more than a year since President Obama signed health care reform into law. The act’s biggest provisions, which will make it easier for the uninsured to buy coverage, don’t take effect until 2014. But Congress, eager to sell the plan to a skeptical public, wrote in a few … More
August 2, 2011
The nation’s supply of physicians, advanced practice nurses and physician assistants can’t keep pace with growing demand as the country expands insurance coverage under the health system reform law, says a study in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Significant work force shortages would persist even with aggressive training … More