The Future of Nursing Action Coalition Overview

Joins us for the first of three workshops:
Transforming the Healthcare Environment, Workshop 1: Survival and Discovery

Duke University receives CMS Funding to Support The Education of Nurse Practitioners

Duke University School of Nursing, in collaboration with Duke University Hospital and Health System and important community partners, is participating in the Graduate Nurse Education Demonstration being funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to increase the provision of qualified training to APRN students. The clinical training included in the Demonstration will provide APRNs with the clinical skills necessary to provide primary care, preventive care, transitional care, chronic care management, and other services appropriate for Medicare beneficiaries.

The Demonstration allowed for a maximum of five hospital participants. On July 30, 2012, CMS announced that the following organizations had been selected to participate: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA); Duke University Hospital (Durham, NC); Scottsdale Healthcare Medical Center (Scottsdale, AZ); Rush University Medical Center (Chicago, IL); and Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center Hospital (Houston, TX).

Hospitals participating in the Demonstration must partner with accredited schools of nursing and non-hospital community-based care settings. CMS will begin making reimbursement payments to eligible hospitals in 2012 from the $200 million of available funds over the four-year period of the Demonstration, helping the hospitals offset the costs of clinical training for APRN students.

For information about the Demonstration at Duke University School of Nursing, please contact Dean Catherine L. Gilliss, PhD, RN, FAAN, Helene Fuld Health Trust Professor of Nursing and Vice Chancellor for Nursing Affairs, at cgilli025@duke.edu.

SUMMIT

The Foundation for Nursing Excellence, along with representatives from several other nursing organizations, hosted a Statewide Summit for Creating the Future of Nursing and Health Care in North Carolina on Monday, April 11, 2011 at the McKimmon Center in Raleigh, NC with more than 200 thought leaders across healthcare, academia, government, consumer and business sectors in attendance.

This invitation-only event opened with Former Governor James Hunt presenting the Welcome and Call to Action to transform nursing as a major component of improving the health and the delivery of healthcare of North Carolinians.

Leah Devlin, former NC State Health Director and member of the Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on The Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine, provided an overview of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee’s Work and National Campaign for Action by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).

After a review of the recommendations put forth in the 2011 IOM Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing HealthReport as well as an overview of selected current initiatives in North Carolina that directly related to the IOM recommendations, attendees chose the following four priority areas for action to transform nursing and improve health care in North Carolina:

Remove barriers to practice
Increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80 percent by 2020
Prepare, enable and expand opportunities for nurses to lead change in health care and diffuse collaborative improvement efforts.
Build an infrastructure for the collection and analysis of interprofessional health care workforce data.

Attendees then worked in small groups to identify key action strategies for each of the priority areas. Next steps will be to identify the champions and volunteers for each priority area who will be committed to further developing and moving the Future of Nursing and Health Care in NC Action Plan forward.

This major initiative will require a broad base of human and capital resources. We invite all interested individuals and organizations to join us in this journey to improve the health of our state. Please follow the links to further information about the IOM Report and recommendations. We encourage you to complete the volunteer form and join us on this challenging journey!

As the work continues, we are asking individuals, healthcare systems, health-related and philanthropic organizations to contribute to this important initiative. To support the healthcare community in this venture, please donate at the NC Future of Nursing Action Coalition donation link above and type “NC Future of Nursing” in the comment section so we can direct your generous support to this project.

Summary and Goals
Executive Summary of North Carolina Summit on the Future of NursingNorth Carolina Future of Nursing Action Coalition Organization ChartCreating the Future of Nursing and Health Care in NC- Summit Program
The National Report
For more information about the Institute of Medicine’s National Report and direction, you can view the following documents:
Report brief
Report recommendations
Focus on education
Focus on scope of practice
To read the full IOM Report on the Future of Nursing, click here
If you would like to order your own hardcopy of the Report, click here
Current North Carolina Initiatives
Transforming the Healthcare Environment Workshop 1: Survival and Discovery [PDF]Where Our Journey Began: 2004 IOM Nursing Taskforce Reropt with the 2011 IOM Future of Nursing Report [PPT]

Assessing the Workforce Needs of Patient-Centered Medical Homes in North Carolina [PPT]Regionally Increasing Baccalaureat Nurses [RIBN] Project [PPT]North Carolina Board of Nursing Advanced Practice Advisory Committee [PPT]
In The News
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Human Capital Blog Highlights Future of Nursing Work in NC
The North Carolina Medical Journal dedicated their July/August issue to the Future of Nursing in North Carolina

NC Future of Nursing Coalition Named an Action Colation by AARP, AARP Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation