The Information On This Page Relates To:

The Institute of Medicine Study (IOM)
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing (IFN)
California Action Coalition (CA AC)

Take the CA AC Survey and sign up for one of the 8 recommendations work group.

The most current information will be at the top of the page, scroll down for all information related to this project.

 

September 1, 2011:

A series of 3 conference calls on the Future of Nursing will be offered by PlexusCalls. All of them will take place at 12-1 Eastern Time. The call in number is 641-715-3300 and the access code is 485743#. All calls will be recorded and will be available at www.plexusinstitute.org The series are:

  • September 19th "IOM Future of Nursing Report and the Nursing Education Highway" by Dr. Liana Orsolini-Hain.
  • October 17th "Appreciation, Influence and Control (AIC)" by William E. Smith author and principle of Organizing for Development and Cynthia Hornberger, professor at Washburn University.
  • November 7th "How to Influence One's Own Personal Style, Choice and Decision to Move the Future of Nursing Agenda Ahead" by Phyllis Kritek a nationally and internationally know nurse scholar, writer speaker and consultant.

 

August 15, 2011

Documents to help educate state legislators:
Imagine a World without Nurses. Distinguishes between RNs & LPNs as well as the role of each of the 4-categories of APRNs.

Solutions to Advance Healthcare in your State. Highlights the 2010 Medicine Future of Nursing Recommendations with suggested state legislation.

August 10, 2011

  • CA  Action Coalition Leadership Council has met 3 times this year, with 2 more meetings scheduled (Note the name change from Regional Action Coalition because of the negative connotation of the acronym RAC).

  • Mary Dickow is now the Statewide Coordinator for this work.  She is an Associate Director at the Center for the Health Professions at the University of California, San Francisco but will assuming this work full time in August.

  •  6 of the 8 work groups have leads or co-leads appointed.  Each of these groups is working on one of the 8 recommendations from the IOM report.

  • In addition to the work groups, because of the size of the State, 8 geographic areas have been identified and 1 or 2 Regional Champions have volunteered to spearhead the work in that area.

  • The web site is still temporarily housed on the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing site, but plans are in the process to develop a robust, dedicated site that will allow the rapid and up to date dissemination of information about this dynamic work.  On the current web page you can still find the link to the survey for participation, communication toolkit resources, and other general information materials.
    http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu.

  • On June 29, 2011, the Gannett Healthcare Group sponsored the Future of Nursing Day of Dialogue.  A panel of nurses and nursing leaders held a panel discussion with a live audience in Washington, D.C.  This was also live-streamed and allowed for questions from the live audience and those attending via the Internet.

  • On August 4, 2011, a Town Hall Meeting for the public was held in Sacramento cosponsored by the CA Action Coalition, AARP, and the UC Davis Betty Irene Moor School of Nursing.


A 2-page document providing an overview of CA Action Coalition including the charge of the CA Action Coalition, brief status report, and list of Executive team members, and a link to the full report http://iis-db.stanford.edu/events/6516/Overview.pdf

NOTE: This document was written prior to the name change, so it refers to the Action Coalition as RAC.

10 New States Selected to Join 5 Pilot States:
This is Wave II of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action's Action Coalitions (ACs). The 10 new states are Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, New Mexico, Utah, Virginia, and Washington. The 5-pilot states are California, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey and New York. Read More.

The 8 recommendations from the IOM Study are:

  • Remove Scope of Practice Barriers
  • Expand opportunities for nurses to lead and diffuse collaborative improvement efforts
  • Implement nurse residency program
  • Increase the proportion of nurses with a BS degree to 80% by 2020
  • Double the number of nurses with a doctorate by 2020
  • Ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning
  • Prepare and enable nurses to lead change to advance health
  • Build an infrastructure for the collection and analysis of inter professional health-care workforce data

    To learn more about this important work, visit the following links: