Blog posts tagged "Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence"

Jonas Center's Amy Warren Covers National Nurses Week 2012 The history of Nurses Day can be traced back to 1953 when Dorothy Sutherland of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare sent a proposal to President Eisenhower to proclaim a "Nurse Day" each year. In 1981, a resolution was initiated by nurses in New Mexico to have May 6th declared "National Recognition Day for Nurses." In 1981, a proposal was signed by President Reagan, making May 6th the official day of celebration. It was later expanded by the ANA Board of Directors in 1990 to a week-long celebration (May 6-12) known as "National Nurses Week,” falling on nurse legend Florence Nightingale’s birthday.
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A Message From Donald Jonas In 2008, our foundation began supporting six nursing doctoral students in greater New York to help prepare new nursing leaders and faculty, a cause that my wife, Barbara, and I are deeply passionate about.
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Webinar Archive Now Available: ADVOCACY ACTIONS NOW! (JONAS CENTER + AACN) This webinar is the first of three, one-hour Webinars addressing state and federal nursing advocacy issues will be released during the final three months leading up to the AACN’s 2012 Student Policy Summit next March. These webinars are co-sponsored by the Jonas Center and AACN.
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Jonas Center's Kelly Mahoney Attends PIN Grant Conference Our Grants Program Manager, Kelly Mahoney, recently attended the Partners Investing in Nursing’s Future (PIN) annual grant conference in New Mexico. In her blog post she summarizes the Jonas Center’s involvement with PIN, and touches upon some takeaways and highlights from the conference. Click-through read Kelly's blog post in its entirety. 
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Jonas Center's Regine Dunn Attends NLN Educational Summit On Monday, September 21, 2011, the Jonas Center's Regine Dunn attended the National League for Nursing (NLN) Educational Summit. The following blog post summarizes Regine's day at the summit, read on for further information:
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Charting Nursing’s Future August 2011 Newsletter (RWJF) Charting Nursing’s Future is a publication from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that reports on policies that can enhance patient care. Their August 2011 issue talks about the Future of Nursing report and its implementation.
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JCNE's Efforts to Increase Baccalaureate Educated Nurses Featured in Center to Champion Nursing's Blog The Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence is pleased to announce that we have been featured on the Center to Champion Nursing's blog. This blog post focuses on the successful Partners Investing in Nursing investments, of which the Jonas Center is a recipient, to help implement an educational tract to address the need for more nurses with a bachelor’s degree. The Jonas Center has worked with schools of nursing in New York and North Carolina to continually refine this new educational model, and early success of these efforts have resulted in future expansion of this on-going project.
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$1.3M Awarded to the Foundation for Nursing Excellence to Increase Nursing Graduates The Jonas Center is pleased report that the North Carolina-based Foundation for Nursing Excellence (FNE) has received a grant from The Duke Endowment to increase the number of Bachelor of Science in Nursing graduates in North Carolina.
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Jonas Scholar Profile: Andrea Barnes Grant BSN, MSN On August 20th, 1940, Sir Winston Churchill, commenting on the situation of the Battle of Britain, stated: "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few." War and conflict was the situation during which Sir Winston Churchill made that memorable comment. Although these are not conflicted times, Donald and Barbara Jonas have stepped forward to make a major impact; we are fortunate that their impact is on the nursing profession. Churchill’s comment continues to have relevance in the present.
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Jonas Scholar Profile: Adrian Juarez, BSN, MSN My name is Adrian Juarez and I am in my third year of a nursing doctoral program at New York University (NYU). Getting to where I am now, has been the culmination of a long, arduous trajectory filled with a little luck and much sacrifice. I should also mention that there are many people who have been directly involved in my success and without their assistance, I know I would not be where I am now. This is where I would like to give many thanks to the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence, as well as to Mr. & Mrs. Jonas, whose support has been immeasurable and there aren’t words that truly capture the level of gratitude that is felt for their generous and unending support.
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