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  • Frantz Explains Potential Bachelor’s Degree Mandate in Register Article

    Bachelor's for nurses considered
    Panel holds closed meeting to talk about degree requirement, which some community colleges oppose
    By Jens Manuel Krogstad, Des Moines Register
     

    A state committee formed to discuss a proposal to require nurses in Iowa to earn a bachelor’s degree met Tuesday in closed session.

  • Iowa Action Coalition: Update

    Nurse Residency Programs
    A big thank you to the speakers and participants who made the July 9th meeting on nurse residencies a success.  Over 75 people attended from across the State.  Also, a very special thank you to Mercy Des Moines for providing a state-of-the-art conference room, complete with technology to support a live webinar, panel discussion and presentations.  The University of Iowa College of Nursing sponsored the refreshments.

  • Dean Frantz Discusses Action Coalition with Radio Iowa

    Coalition seeks to increase training for nurses

    July 7, 2012 – By Pat Curtis

    An effort is underway to ensure Iowa’s nursing workforce is properly prepared to meet an increasingly complex and sophisticated health care system. Rita Frantz, Dean of the University of Iowa College of Nursing, is co-leader of the Future of Nursing Iowa Action Coalition.

  • More Stringent Requirements Send Nurses Back to School

    By Richard Pérez-Peña

    (NY Times) ABINGTON, Pa. — Jennifer Matton is going to college for the third time, no easy thing with a job, church groups and four children with activities from lacrosse to Boy Scouts. She always planned to return to school, but as it turned out, she had little choice: her career depended on it.

  • New Partnership with Future of Nursing

    Lisa Sieren, statewide coordinator for United Ways of Iowa, has been selected to serve on the Steering Committee of the Iowa Action Coalition in the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action. The purpose of the coalition is to implement recommendations from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.” 

  • Iowa Action Coalition: Update

    Greetings!  Iowa’s Action Coalition in the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action has been moving forward since receiving approval on Feb 23rd, 2012 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and AARP.  The focus of initial Action Coalition activities has been building its infrastructure.  While some committees and work groups still need to be formed, membership on the Steering Committee and RN-BSN Articulation Task Force is described below.  However, the work of the Iowa Action Coalition will not be confined to its committees.  It will be working with a wide range o

  • Iowa Named as Action Coalition to Ensure High-Quality, Patient-Centered Health Care

    Iowa has been selected as an Action Coalition by the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, coordinated through the Center to Champion Nursing in America (CCNA), an initiative of AARP, the AARP Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), to ensure that all Americans have access to high-quality, patient-centered health care, with nurses contributing to the full extent of their capabilities.