North Carolina Future of Nursing Action Coalition

Overview of April 11th Summit

The Foundation for Nursing Excellence along with representatives from several other nursing organizations hosted a Statewide Summit for Creating the Future of Nursing and Health Care in North Carolina on Monday, April 11, 2011 at the McKimmon Center in Raleigh, NC with more than 200 thought leaders across healthcare, academia, government, consumer and business sectors in attendance. 

This invitation only event opened with Former Governor James Hunt presenting the Welcome and Call to Action to transform nursing as a major component of improving the health and the delivery of healthcare of North Carolinians. 

Leah Devlin, former NC State Health Director and member of the Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on The Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine, provided an overview of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee’s Work and National Campaign for Action by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). 

After a review of the recommendations put forth in the 2011 IOM Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health Report as well as an overview of selected current initiatives in North Carolina that directly related to the IOM recommendations, attendees chose the following four priority areas for action to transform nursing and improve health care in North Carolina: 

  • Remove barriers to practice
  • Increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80 percent by 2020
  • Prepare, enable and expand opportunities for nurses to lead change in health care and diffuse collaborative improvement efforts. 
  • Build an infrastructure for the collection and analysis of interprofessional health care workforce data. 

Attendees then worked in small groups to identify key action strategies for each of the priority areas.  Next steps will be to identify the champions and volunteers for each priority area who will be committed to further developing and moving the Future of Nursing and Health Care in NC Action Plan forward.  

This major initiative will require a broad base of human and capital resources.  We invite all interested individuals and organizations to join us in this journey to improve the health of our state.   Please follow the links to further information about the IOM Report and recommendations.  We encourage you to complete the volunteer form and join us on this challenging journey!  

As the work continues, we are asking individuals, healthcare systems, health-related and philanthropic organizations to contribute to this important initiative.  To support the healthcare community in this venture, please donate at the NC Future of Nursing Action Coalition donation link below and type "NC Future of Nursing" in the comment section so we can direct your generous support to this project.

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 North Carolina Future of Nursing Action Coalition Documents

  • Current NC Initiatives Related to IOM Recommendations - Presentations

  1. Where our journey began: 2004 NC IOM Nursing taskforce report with the 2011 IOM Future of Nursing report

  2. ASSESSING THE WORKFORCE NEEDS OF PATIENT-CENTERED MEDICAL HOMES IN NORTH CAROLINA

  3. Regionally Increasing Baccalaureate Nurses (RIBN) Project

  4. North Carolina Board of Nursing Advanced Practice Advisory Committee

 

More Information about the National Report 

For more information direction about the Institute of Medicine's National Report and direction, you can view the following documents:

To read the full IOM Report on the Future of Nursing, click here

If you would like to order your own hardcopy of the Report, click here