Donna Shalala To Head New IOM Commission on Future of Nursing

University of Miama President Donna Shalala. Photo by Knight Foundation, via Flickr.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is supporting a new Institute of Medicine (IOM) Commission on the Future of Nursing. The chairperson will be University of Miami President Donna Shalala  (also former Secretary of Health and Human Services under the Clinton Administration); the commission will include a few nurses but also others from various private and public sectors. The foundation has been investing significantly in nursing in recent years, with projects such as the Executive Nurse Fellowships, an interdisciplinary nursing research initiative, Transforming Care At the Bedside, and the AARP Center to Champion Nursing.

The commission is not expected to start its work until later this year, but nursing should applaud the RWJ Foundation for recognizing the importance of nursing and being willing to invest in it. My money is betting that this commission will result in significant recommendations—instead of unread and tepid reports designed to collect dust.

-Diana Mason, AJN editor-in-chief

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2016-11-21T13:35:39-05:00April 9th, 2009|nursing perspective, nursing research|2 Comments
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Marketing Osteoporosis: How a Risk Factor Becomes a Disease—and Health Care Costs Continue to Rise

Photo by kyz / Stuart Caie via Flickr.

“In the name of prevention, millions of Americans have accepted the idea that it’s reasonable to treat a risk factor such as bone loss or high cholesterol as if it were a disease,” writes Maryann Napoli, associate director of the Center for Medical Consumers, in her April AJN article, “Marketing Osteoporosis.” […]

2016-11-21T13:36:27-05:00April 3rd, 2009|health care policy, nursing research|0 Comments
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Postcard from Cardiff, Pt. 2: Diana Mason Wins the Impact Factor Debate

We won! To follow up on my last post: At a debate today at the Royal College of Nursing’s so-called “fringe session” at its annual International Nursing Research Conference, Elizabeth Anionwu, emeritus professor of nursing at Thames Valley University in Middlesex (near London), joined me in arguing in opposition to the statement, “research should be published in the highest impact journals available.” […]

2009-03-30T16:14:25-04:00March 30th, 2009|career, nursing perspective, nursing research|2 Comments
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