Our Workforce Needs

Our healthcare system needs an abundant supply of well-trained caregivers - physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals - to deliver accessible, high quality, affordable care. But forecasting our healthcare workforce needs and designing policies and programs to match those needs is challenging. Read More>> 

 

It Takes a Team: Who's Who on your Hospital Team

First and foremost, each patient has a nurse assigned to him or her at all times - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This "primary nurse" works closely with your doctor to oversee and coordinate your care. Even when your nurse is on break, there is a nurse assigned to be responsible for your safe care. The nurse develops a plan for each of his or her patients and leads a team that helps with your care.

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How MHA, MONE and Their Partners Are Promoting a Strong Healthcare Workforce

MHA and MONE, in cooperation with many partners and collaborators, are leading the way to address the future nursing shortage in the Bay State.

Expanding America's Capacity to Educate Nurses:
Diverse, State-Level Partnerships Are Creating Promising Models and Results

Experts now predict that the United States will be short substantially more than 260,000 registered nurses by 2025 unless it expands nursing education capacity quickly and dramatically. Lack of faculty and clinical placements, as well as other capacity deficits, are causing prelicensure nursing programs nationwide to reject tens of thousands of qualified applications annually. Diverse, state-level partnerships are indispensable to solving capacity problems. This May 2010 issue of Charting Nursing's Future describes the capacity innovations of 12 partnerships.  Read More>>
 

Health Care Reform and Increased Patient Needs Require Transformation of Nursing Profession

News Release from from the National Academies, Institute of Medicine 

Oct. 5, 2010 -- Nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. 

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Massachusetts joins Campaign for Action: Group seeks diverse showing of nurses, encourages RNs at all levels to participate.

Although the Massachusetts Action Coalition wasn't officially selected as an Action Coalition by the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action until late September, nurses in this state have been diligently at work for years to accomplish many of the goals formally established in 2010 in the Institute of Medicine report "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health." 

Tufts Health Plan Foundation Receives National Grant To Form Three-State Collaborative

Tufts Health Plan Foundation announced today that it has been chosen again as one of 11 foundations nationwide to receive funding from Partners Investing in Nursing's Future (PIN), a national initiative to help address the long-term shortage of nurses across the country.  This time around, the collaboration will form an unique regional institute for inter-professional education.  The Tufts Health Plan Foundation was awarded a three-year, $225,000 grant.

Strike won't cure what ails hospitals

Globe /Opinion /Op-ed By Lynn Nicholas March 31, 2011

MASSACHUSETTS HOSPITALS are working continuously to innovate, slow the growth of health care costs, and improve patient care. In addition, they are implementing new care delivery strategies to make sure the care they provide is better coordinated and more efficient.

Scholarships

The Massachusetts Hospital Research and Education Association (MHREA) in conjunction with the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education (MDHE),  announce final round of award recipients for the Tufts Health Plan Foundation Nurse Scholars Program.

 

Center to Champion Nursing in America (CCNA) Quarterly News Digest E-Newsletter

The e-newsletter examines important nursing issues through the consumer lens and features recent work and useful Web content.  The CCNA, a consumer-driven, national force for change, works to increase the nation's capacity to educate and retain nurses who are prepared and empowered to positively influence health care access, quality, and costs. Read the CCNA newsletter>> 

Massachusetts Initiative Unites Nurse Educators, Employers, and Funders

Strategic partners develop clinical placement system, core competencies, simulation training, and resources to support nurses.  Read complete article from April 2010 ed. of AJN>>

Facts about the Nursing Workforce

A new fact sheet from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation offers a wealth of hard data on the nursing workforce-how many nurses are at work today, what their educational backgrounds are, how diverse the nursing population is, what the employment trends are, how big the nursing gap will be in a few years, and more.

A Tale of Two Generations: How to Keep Boomers on the Job

By Lorren Pettit, Managing Consultant,
Source: Press Ganey Associates

The baby boom generation is already having an effect on the health care system, an effect that will multiply in coming years. The number of Americans age 65 and older is projected to rise to 54 million by 2020. Just as the number of patients will swell, hospitals and other healthcare organizations will be losing their baby boomer physicians, nurses and technicians. South Shore Hospital's efforts to support the continued employment of older nurses is featured here.