Press Release
For Immediate Release | August 10, 2011
Contact: Tiffany Himmelreich
(office) 614.221.7614
(cell) 614.205.6635
e-mail: tiffanyh@ohanet.org
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) – The Ohio Hospital Association (OHA) and the Ohio League for Nursing (OLN), in conjunction with the Ohio Network for Nursing Workforce (ONNW), today applied to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to co-lead an action coalition to change the future of nursing.
In October 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), in partnership with RWJF, issued The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, with eight recommendations to ensure that nursing has a prominent role in leading transformation and advancing health in the changing health care system.
If selected as Ohio’s designated action coalition, the group will be charged with engaging stakeholders and working to develop strategies to implement the IOM’s recommendations. A decision from RWJF is expected in September.
IOM’s report makes the following recommendations:
- Remove scope of practice barriers so APNs can practice to the full extent of their training.
- Expand opportunities for nurses to lead and diffuse collaborative improvement efforts.
- Implement nurse residency programs.
- Increase the proportion of nurses with BSN degrees to 80 percent by 2020.
- Double the number of nurses with a doctorate degree 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 interprofessional health care workforce data.
IOM’s full report is available online at http://thefutureofnursing.org/recommendations.
About OHA
The Ohio Hospital Association was established in 1915 and currently represents 166 hospitals and 16 health systems throughout Ohio. OHA is a membership-driven organization that provides proactive leadership to create an environment in which Ohio hospitals are successful in serving their communities. Visit OHA’s website at www.ohanet.org. Follow OHA on Twitter @OhioHospitals.
About OLN
The Ohio League for Nursing advances excellence in nursing education that prepares a strong and diverse nursing workforce to advance the nation’s health. Visit OLN’s website at www.ohioleaguefornursing.org.
About ONNW
The Ohio Network for Nursing Workforce is a statewide communication network established to identify issues related to nursing workforce, share nursing supply and demand data by providing links to state and regional resources, examine ways to gather nursing supply and demand data, disseminate best practices for dealing with nursing workforce issues, facilitate discussion of policies regarding the nursing workforce and provide for the participation in the online National Forum for State Nursing Workforce Centers. Visit ONNW’s website at http://ohiocenterfornursing.org/workforce_network.html.
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