Reference Library

2011

Charting Nursing’s Future is available for free download or to subscribe to free delivery of future editions to your email inbox, visit the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation website.

Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) Learning Modules Designed to help both new and experienced faculty integrate the Quality and Safety competencies into their nursing programs. Each module explores a particular topic or issue, provides resources, and raises questions to engage users in expanding or strengthening the learning experiences they create with students around quality and safety.

2010

Initiative on the Future of Nursing and on www.RWJF.org

2009

Situation Critical: Closing the Nurse Supply Gap in New Jersey

Geri L. Dickson
Linda Flynn

This report, similar to the 2006 report, focuses on improving the healthcare for New Jerseyeans by featuring evidence-based recommendations to ensure safe and quality care by nurses in the State.

2008

Blowing Open the Bottleneck
Designing New Approaches to Increase Nurse Education Capacity

Jennifer Joynt
Bobbi Kimball

This paper was commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; the Center to Champion Nursing in America; and the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration to provide background for participants attending the national Nursing Education Summit in June 2008.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a concise but comprehensive understanding of the complexity of nursing education capacity, and to inform Summit participants of pioneering solutions currently in development across the nation.

Strategically Addressing the Nurse Shortage
A closer look at the Nurse Funders Collaborative

Denise A. Davis
Melanie D. Napier

Despite consistent public and private investments in nursing over several decades, nurse shortages persist, appearing more acute today than ever before. The Nurse Funders Collaborative, a group of foundations, government agencies, and corporations convened by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has been meeting since 2003, seeking opportunities to address issues facing nursing and health care more strategically. This paper reports on a study conducted under the collaborative's auspices, which highlights the categorical and regional funding patterns of funders of nursing over five years. This information provides nursing funders with ways to craft new solutions to the nurse shortage.

2007

New Jersey's Nursing Faculty Shortage
A technical report for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Susan Reinhard, R.N., Ph.D., F.A.A.N.
Barbara Wright, R.N., Ph.D., F.A.A.N.
Mary Ellen Cook, M.P.P

Commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this report is a "state of the state" snapshot of nursing faculty workforce issues in New Jersey. The report offers several key findings, based on a review of the literature, interviews with national and state experts in nursing education, and a statewide meeting of the New Jersey Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing and invited guests.