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SILVER SPRINGS, MD, December 13, 2011 - For the 12th year, nurses were voted the most trusted profession in America in Gallup’s annual survey that ranks professions based on their honesty and ethical standard. Eighty-four percent of Americans rated nurses’ honesty and ethical standards as “very high or “high.”

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence are partnering to produce a series of didactic Webinars for nursing students attending AACN’s 2012 Student Policy Summit next March. Three, one-hour Webinars addressing state and federal nursing advocacy issues will be released during the final three months leading up to the Summit. By participating in this learning opportunity, nursing students from across the country will listen and engage in relevant policy and advocacy issues prior arriving in Washington, DC.

NEW YORK, December 2, 2011 – The Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence has presented its first Jonas Center Award for Advancing Nursing Leadership to Norman Volk, Chairman of the John A. Hartford Foundation, the leading philanthropy focused on improving health care for older Americans. The award honors those who embody the Jonas Center’s mission to advance nursing scholarship, leadership and innovative practice.

In recognition of the dedication and sacrifice of the nation’s veterans, the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence has established the Jonas Nursing Scholars Program for Veterans Health. The program aims to improve the health of veterans, notably those of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, by supporting doctoral-level nursing candidates who are committed to advancing veterans health care, from patient care to policy and administration.

The Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence is expanding a successful program in New York City and North Carolina that joins community colleges and four year institutions in an approach that streamlines the path from an associate’s to a baccalaureate degree and ultimately increases the number of nurses in each region who have advanced educations.

The program, Multi-Regional Model to Increase the Number of Baccalaureate Nurses in the U.S. (RIBN), begun in 2008, is a partnership among the Jonas Center, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Northwest Health Foundation. It is one of 11 initiatives of the Partners Investing in Nursing’s Future (PIN) program – a first-of-its-kind collaboration of the philanthropic community to foster innovations that help address the nursing crisis. PIN programs are designed to test local innovations that may serve as national models and to encourage additional funding.

The Jonas Center and American Association of Colleges of Nursing were both mentioned in a recent NurseZone.com article for their collaborative efforts to increase the number of doctoral prepared faculty available to teach in nursing schools. Click through to view an excerpt of the article; to view this article in its entirety please visit Nursezone.com.

The Jonas Center was recently recognized in the NYC Nurse-Family Partnership September 2011 E-newsletter for supporting the Nurses' Heart's Desire Fund. Click through for more information.

Jonas Center Executive Director, Darlene Curley, was recently interviewed and featured in the Daily Iowan. The excerpt featured here is a transcript of Darlene's interview, to view the article in its entirety please visit the Daily Iowan's website by clicking this link.

Jonas Center Executive Director, Darlene Curley, was recently featured in the Partners Investing in Nursing's Fall 2011 newsletter. The excerpt below is a transcript of Darlene's interview, to view the newsletter in its entirety click here