F1 - Implementing the IOM Future of Nursing Recommendations: Beginning Lessons Learned From the California Regional Action Coalition

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) released the report, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,” in October 2010. The report, a collaborative effort of the IOM and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 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. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in partnership with the Center to Champion Nursing in America at AARP, appointed the California Regional Action Coalition (RAC) as one of five states selected to lead implementation of these recommendations. The coalition is 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 to improve health in California. This session will review the current structure and process of the California RAC.