The California Regional Action Coalition is one of five coalitions nationwide that is working to implement recommendations of an Institute of Medicine's report released last month to advance health through nursing. Entitled "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health," the report is a collaborative effort of the institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The report calls for enhancing nursing's leadership role in health-care redesign, increasing the capacity of nurses to address growing societal need, and raising the education level of the nursing work force. It also outlines several recommendations that address a range of system changes, including innovative ways to improve health-care quality and address the health-care work force shortage that continues to threaten the availability and quality of care in the United States.
The project is now in the implementation phase to develop a plan for implementing the institute's recommendations to advance health through nursing. The Regional Action Coalitions are the driving force of the overall initiative to move key issues forward at the local, state and national levels. The coalitions will develop long-term, sustainable actions. Currently, there are five coalitions nationwide, with one designated to California.
In addition to Young's role on the California Regional Action Coalition, UC Davis Health System will host a meeting Nov. 30 to raise awareness and foster discussion of the Institute of Medicine report and the national health initiative. The health system event, scheduled in conjunction with the National Summit on Advancing Health through Nursing, is one of several meetings to held nationwide. The meetings will include a live broadcast of the national summit event and provide an opportunity to engage a broader group of nurses, nursing leaders and other stakeholders in implementing the recommendations of the Future of Nursing report.
About the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis
For 100 years, UC Davis has engaged in teaching, research and public service that matters to California and to transform the world. The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis was established in March 2009, UC Davis' first major initiative to address society's most pressing health-care problems in its second century of service. The school was launched through a $100 million commitment from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the nation's largest grant for nursing education. The vision of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing is to transform health care through nursing education and research. Through nursing leadership, the school will discover knowledge to advance health, improve quality of care and health outcomes, and inform health policy. The school admitted its first classes for the Master of Science and the Doctor of Philosophy degree programs in fall 2010. Additional students and programs will be phased in over the next decade. The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing is part of the UC Davis Health System, an integrated, academic health system encompassing UC Davis School of Medicine, the 613-bed-acute-care hospital and clinical services of UC Davis Medical Center and the 800-member physician group known as the UC Davis Medical Group.