Update on Implementation of Future of Nursing Recommendations

Summit Year: 
2014
Presented By: 
Sue Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN
Sue Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN
RWJF Senior Adviser for Nursing and Director, Campaign for Action
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Susan Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, who joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in 1997, is presently RWJF’s senior adviser for nursing. In this role, she shapes and leads the Foundation’s strategies to address nurse and nurse faculty shortages in an effort to create a higher quality of patient care in the United States. Drawn to the Foundation’s “organizational advocacy for the less fortunate and underserved,” Hassmiller is helping to assure that RWJF's commitments in nursing have a broad and lasting national impact.



Session Overview:

Discuss progress, current activities, and outcomes associated with implementation of the Future of Nursing recommendations as presented in the 2010 Institute of Medicine report.

Session Objective:
  1. Describe major initiatives for implementing IOM Future of Nursing recommendations.
  2. State actions that may be taken on by individuals and schools of nursing that will contribute to implementation of described initiatives.