Nursing Workforce Solutions For 21st Century Health Care: How Do We Get There?

Main Category: Nursing / Midwifery
Article Date: 09 Jun 2009 - 1:00 PDT

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At a June 12 forum cosponsored by Health Affairs and the Center to Champion Nursing in America (CCNA), Health Affairs will release a series of papers on the future of the nursing workforce.  CCNA is a joint initiative of AARP, the AARP Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  The studies examine the current nursing workforce and implications for health reform and economic recovery.  Featured speaker Representative Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) will kick off the event with the view from Congress.  At the forum, study authors and other experts will participate in armchair conversations, led by Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Susan Dentzer, to discuss how to enable the nursing workforce to best meet the future health care needs of Americans.  Implications for Medicare funding and other health policy issues will be considered. 

WHAT: Forum to release and discuss new research on the future of the nation's nursing workforce.

WHEN: June 12, 2009 9 a.m. to noon

WHERE: Columbus Club Union Station, Washington, DC

WHO: Representative Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) Susan Dentzer, Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs

Panelists include:

- John Rother, Executive Vice President, AARP
- Wendell Primus, Health Counsel to Speaker of the House
- Linda Aiken, Director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
- Peter Buerhaus, Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Brenda Cleary, Director, Center to Champion Nursing in America
- Dan Elling, Republican Staff Director, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health
- Susan Hassmiller, Senior Advisor for Nursing, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Susan Reinhard, Senior Vice President and Director, AARP Public Policy Institute; Chief Strategist, Center to Champion Nursing in America

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AARP