title: Round Six Of Partners Investing In Nursing's Future: Implications For The Health Sector, Policy Makers, And Foundations.
abstract: In its 2011 report on the future of nursing, the Institute of Medicine issued recommendations to position nursing to meet the challenges of twenty-first-century health care. Following release of the report, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded eleven local and regional partnerships of nurses, foundations, and other stakeholders to begin implementing some of the recommendations in their regions. A qualitative evaluation of these partnerships found that although not all goals were met, most of the partnerships achieved meaningful gains. Partnership participants emphasized the value of engaging foundations and other stakeholders from outside nursing in the implementation process, the necessity of funding for implementation, the need for policy makers to address constraints that local and regional partnerships by themselves cannot address, and the unique leadership and convening role that local and regional foundations can play to help their regions respond to complex challenges for the nursing profession.
authors.affiliation: Paul S. Jellinek (jellinek2@verizon.net) is founding partner and principal at Isaacs-Jellinek, a division of Health Policy Associates Inc., in San Francisco, California.
authors.forename: Paul S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Jellinek
authors.affiliation: Renee J. Reinhardt is a Partners Investing in Nursing's Future program officer at the Northwest Health Foundation, in Portland, Oregon.
authors.forename: Renee J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Reinhardt
authors.affiliation: Maryjoan D. Ladden is a senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in Princeton, New Jersey.
authors.forename: Maryjoan D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Ladden
authors.affiliation: Marla E. Salmon is a professor of nursing and global health in the Evans School of Public Policy, University of Washington, in Seattle.
authors.forename: Marla E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Salmon
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005381:Financing, Organized; D005582:Foundations; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D009726:Nurses / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D014481:United States
keywords: Health Philanthropy; Nurses