Don’t Miss Another Education Learning Collaborative Call

The Campaign for Action website now has Outlook calendar links for all learning collaborative calls. Visit the Education Learning Collaborative page to add the call to your calendar, and also view summaries of previous calls.

Population Health in Nursing Survey

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Center to Champion Nursing in America (CCNA), an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and RWJF, have launched a new project to identify and disseminate promising models that incorporate and strengthen population health into nursing education curricula. This work is built, in part, on the recently published RWJF report, Catalysts for Change: Harnessing the Power of Nurses to Build Population Health in the 21st Century.

To launch the effort, Susan B. Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, senior advisor for nursing at RWJF and director of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, notified Tri-Council for Nursing member organizations that their members may be contacted for a survey or interviewed. The survey focuses on nursing and other professions that influence nursing curriculum, including public health, social work and medicine. Questions focus on competencies, content areas and skills for nurses. AARP’s Research Center will analyze the findings.

18^th Colloquium for Population Health Conference

Patricia Polansky, RN, MS, CCNA’s director of program development and implementation, attended 18th Population Health Colloquium Conference March 19-21. The conference featured health care providers, payers, pharmaceutical executives, leading technology and solutions companies, academia, and government to highlight advances in population health. Industry leaders shared best practices, case studies, expert insights and industry trends as well as discussion on big data and how it gets used, models, and care teams.