Buerhaus’s presentationActing Today to Assure Tomorrow’s Nursing Workforcewill address key issues regarding the change in the registered nurse workforce and the policy implications for strategic directions in education and practice over the next 10 years.
“What is needed most is for the problems facing the nursing profession to rise higher onto the nation’s health policy agenda so that effective actions can be implemented sooner rather than later,” said Buerhaus (JAMA, 2008).
Buerhaus is the Valere Potter Distinguished Professor of Nursing and the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies at the Institute for Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
He is an active researcher in studies on the economics of the nursing workforce, health workforce forecasting, developing measures of quality of care, and determining public and provider opinions on issues involving the delivery of health care. He has authored over 75 peer-reviewed articles regarding health services research and nursing and has advised policy makers and legislators on a wide variety of nursing health policy issues. A respected leader in healthcare, he is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, and has served on the Advisory Council for NIH’s National Institute of Nursing Research.
This free public lecture will be broadcast live from WSU Spokane to the following WSU locations: Pullman, TriCities, Vancouver, Walla Walla, and Yakima. More information regarding offsite locations, parking and Continuing Education Credits is available online at nursing.wsu.edu/cvs/sept09.html. For additional event information or to request special accommodations, contact Karen Malone at 509-324-7339 or malone@wsu.edu.
About the Cleveland Visiting Scholar Program
The Cleveland Visiting Scholar program began in 1998 to honor WSU College of Nursing Dean Emeritus Dr. Thelma L. Cleveland and is made possible through an endowment in her honor. Additional support on behalf of the 2009 program has been generously provided by the following organizations which are committed to quality health care and higher education: Washington State Nurses Association, The Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, and the Inland Empire Nurses Association.
About the WSU College of Nursing
The Washington State University College of Nursing, the largest college of nursing in the Pacific Northwest, graduates each year more entry-level nurses than any other institution in the state of Washington and is a national leader in distributive nursing education models, serving students across five locations across the state in Spokane, Tri-Cities, Walla Walla, Vancouver and Yakima. For more information about the WSU College of Nursing, visit nursing.wsu.edu.
