The Group of Twenty (GOT) met in July to refuel and re-energize the work of the overall Nursing 2015 Initiative.  Jill Trosin and Rose Marie Martin agreed to assume co-leadership roles with the GOT on an interim basis.  The work of the various teams was reviewed and some changes proposed.  Team leaders will be communicating with their team members regarding those changes. 

Upcoming team meeting dates are posted on the various team pages so please check there for the latest information. 

Finally, the Nursing 2015 Initiative is always seeking new participants so anyone who would like to be involved in shaping the future for nursing in Ohio should email Jan Lanier (jlanier@ohnurses.org) to become part of this exciting endeavor.

This ANA recognition program is available to your facilities. Please click here for more information.

Following are the meeting dates for GOT:

October 30, 2009: Meeting: 10am – 3pm at ONA Headquarters

December 3, 2009: Meeting: 12 noon - 4 p.m. at ONA Headquarters

To join a team or to RSVP for a meeting, please contact Jan Lanier at jlanier@ohnurses.org or (614) 448-1028; or e-mail nursing2015@yahoo.com.  ALL TEAMS ARE ACTIVELY RECRUITING NEW MEMBERS SO FIND THE TEAM THAT APPPEALS TO YOU AND JOIN!

Aiming to enhance care quality and increase staff efficiency, Steubenville, Ohio-based Trinity Hospital West will soon open a new patient care unit that features a number of evidence-based design elements, the Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register reports.

Read More at http://www.rwjf.org/humancapital/digest.jsp?id=9062&c=EMC-ND137

Click Here to View a PowerPoint about the Nursing 2015 Initiative.

Over 80 nurses and guests came together to review, refine and coordinate work on the Nursing 2015 initiative at a meeting March 6. Keynote speakers at the event were Linda Everett, immediate past president of the American Organization of Nurse Executives, and Becky Patton, president of the American Nurses Association.

The day’s discussion highlighted some recent successful Nursing 2015 initiatives, the collaborative common sense staffing bill and work to get a no-interest loan program in the Bureau of Workers Compensation budget for hospitals to purchase lifting equipment. Although no conclusions were reached at this meeting, the work products will be used by the leadership team to guide the continued development of the Nursing 2015 action agenda. For more details about Nursing 2015, visit www.FutureThink.org.

PricewaterhouseCoopers Calls The Current Medical Workforce Model Broken

There are more doctors and nurses today than ever before, but they are not being trained, distributed or deployed efficiently, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) Health Research Institute.

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