Penn Researchers Role in New Nursing Report
Penn researchers contributed significantly to the 500-page report on The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. The report draws heavily on practice at Penn Nursing and on research produced by a number of professors and researchers. Among them:
- The benefits of nurse-led teams to manage the discharge of chronically ill adults to avoid revolving-door hospital readmissions in a transitional model of care
- Nurse workforce issues including issues of nurse migration from other countries and turnover
- The contributions of nurses to invent new technology to help care for patients cites the device that measures the ability of vulnerable infants to suck and survive
- The potential for a new practice milieu with integrated teams within a “digital commons”
Dr. Donna Shalala, who chaired the committee on the future of nursing, put it succinctly:
“We cannot get significant improvements in the quality of health care or coverage unless nurses are front and center in the health-care system — in leadership, in education and training, and in the design of the new health-care system," she said.
-Afaf I. Meleis, Dean University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Read more about the Intiative on the Future of Nursing
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