Press Room
The Regionally Increasing Baccalaureate Nurses (RIBN) Program, coordinated by the Foundation for Nursing Excellence, is being highlighted by The Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) and is featured in the IEI Commons exhibit in the new James B. Hunt Library on North Carolina State University’s Centennial Campus and online. See the video and add your voice to the digital commons.
THE second annual statewide ribn conference
Get the latest information about how Regionally Increasing Baccalaureate Nurses [RIBN] can work for you and for North Carolina
Nurse Educators, Nurse Employers and Other Leaders in Healthcare – This is for You!
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The Foundation for Nursing Excellence Receives Grant to Strengthen North Carolina’s Nursing Workforce
Focus in North Carolina will be on creating the educational infrastructure to support increasing the proportion of baccalaureate or higher degree nurses to 80 percent by 2025 by providing student support and improving targeted recruitment and retention strategies.
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New Robert wood johnson Foundation program, academic progression in Nursing, includes North Carolina
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has announced that North Carolina is one of nine states chosen for a two-year, $300,000 grant to advance state and regional strategies aimed at creating a more highly educated, diverse nursing workforce. The funding is through a new RWJF program, Academic Progression in Nursing (APIN).
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Human Capital Blog Highlights Future of Nursing work in NC
The Future of Nursing in North Carolina by Mary P. “Polly” Johnson, MSN, RN, FAAN.
North Carolina’s nurses have an impressive history of contributing to health and health care in the state—from establishing its first civilian hospital to offering of the nation’s first clinical master’s program in nursing.
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NC Future of Nursing Coalition Named an Action Coalition by AARP, AARP Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
WASHINGTON (September 26, 2011) – The NC Future of Nursing Action Coalition has been selected as an Action Coalition by the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action. This project is coordinated through the Center to Champion Nursing in America (CCNA), and sponsored by AARP, the AARP Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), to ensure all Americans have access to high-quality care, with nurses contributing to the full extent of their capabilities.
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UNC Charlotte, three local colleges teaming up to train nurses
CHARLOTEE BUSINESS JOURNAL (August 26, 2011) – UNC Charlotte will collaborate with three area community colleges to increase the number of nurses receiving four-year degrees here.
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The Foundation for Nursing Excellence Receives Grant to Further Efforts at Addressing North Carolina’s Nursing Shortage
RALEIGH, N.C. (June 28, 2011). - The Foundation for Nursing Excellence (FFNE) has received a $1,370,000 grant from The Duke Endowment (TDE) to increase the number of Bachelor of Science in Nursing graduates in North Carolina by expanding the RIBN (Regionally Increasing Baccalaureate Nurses) project. Over the next three years, more than two-thirds of the award will be shared directly with five different regional RIBN partnerships throughout North Carolina.
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ADVANCE for Nurses Highlights RIBN Program
ADVANCE for Nurses writer Lisa O. Monroe highlighted the Foundation for Nursing Excellence’s RIBN program in part one of their three part series on initiatives across the country to relieve an expected future nursing shortage.
In this article, Jonas Center’s Executive Director Darlene Curley talks about the generosity of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support the work being done in the project. This project builds “partnerships with community colleges and four year institutions working towards a common goal” of procuring highly trained nurses and thus a higher quality in patient care.
Polly Johnson, President and CEO of Foundation for Nursing Excellence, discusses how it works with the North Carolina portion of the project and how the nursing students are “socialized from day one that they are on their way to a bachelor’s degree in four years.”
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National Summit on Advancing Health through Nursing
Recently Polly Johnson, President and CEO of Foundation for Nursing Excellence, along with other nursing leaders in North Carolina, attended the National Summit on Advancing Health through Nursing where the recently released Institute of Medicine Report: The Future of Nursing - Leading Change, Advancing Health was discussed in great detail. Government, healthcare, business and philanthropic thought leaders were challenged to work collaboratively to move the major recommendations of the report forward to action at the national, state and local levels.
North Carolina is already moving forward on several of the key areas with The Foundation for Nursing Excellence taking the lead on two of the major recommendations.
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The Foundation for Nursing Excellence Receives Grant to Further Efforts to Increase the Number of BSN-Prepared Nurses in North Carolina
RALEIGH, NC (July 2010) – The Foundation for Nursing Excellence has received a grant from The Duke Endowment to continue their support of the Western North Carolina Regionally Increasing Baccalaureate Nurses project over the next two years. Further comments and contact information are in the July News Release.
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The Foundation for Nursing Excellence Receives Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Grant to Further Efforts at Addressing North Carolina’s Nursing Shortage
RALEIGH, NC (November 2009) – The Foundation for Nursing Excellence (FFNE) recently received a gift to further the second phase of its Evidence-Based Transition to Nursing Practice Initiative in North Carolina. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation provided funds to specifically identify, design and test strategies related to preceptor role development and the use of simulation in assessing and enhancing core competence and confidence development during the first 6 months of employment for newly licensed nurses in our state. The goals of this project are to enhance competence and reduce new nurse turnover by 20% as strategies for creating a well-prepared nursing workforce in North Carolina. Further comments and contact information are in the November News Release.
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The Foundation for Nursing Excellence Receives Duke Endowment Grant to Further Efforts to Strengthen North Carolina’s Nursing Workforce
RALEIGH, NC (December 2009) – The Foundation for Nursing Excellence (FNE) recently received a second gift from The Duke Endowment to further the Evidence-Based Transition to Nursing Practice Initiative in North Carolina. Further comments and contact information are in the December News Release.
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