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Carolyn Hayes, 2012 cohort member, reflects on how nurses provided quality care to patients and others traumatized by the bombing at the Boston Marathon.

The RWJF Human Capital Blog is asking diverse experts: What is and isn't working in health professions education today, and what changes are needed to prepare a high-functioning health and health care workforce that can meet the country's current and emerging needs? The 9/28 post is by Kate Driscoll Malliarakis, PhD, CNP, MAC.

Dr. Chater is named one of 40 RWJF Force Multipliers.

Executive Nurse Fellow Peggy Gordin, RN, MS: Making sure every health care provider has a say enhances patient safety and prevents crises at an award-winning children's hospital.

Nancy Ridenour, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN, is dean of the University of New Mexico College of Nursing and an alumna of the RWJF Health Policy Fellows and Executive Nurse Fellows programs.

More than half of doctors' offices and 80 percent of hospitals that provide Medicare or Medicaid will have electronic health records by the end of the year, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday.

States still mired in the fight over the Obamacare Medicaid expansion are starting to give up on their first year of full funding — and it’s unclear whether they would be able to tap into the money before 2015.

Despite 75 percent owning personal smartphones, only a quarter of nurses at acute care hospitals have a smartphone available to support their nursing work, according to a survey by smartphone marketing company Voalte and nursing journal, American Nurse Today.

There is nothing fancy about the schoolyard at P.S. 309 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. It’s just a few hundred square feet of bare asphalt bounded by a chain link fence, with a couple of basketball hoops and some lines painted on the ground. A young woman named Tashawnee Guarriello is busy getting the yard ready for recess, which is going to start any moment. Guarriello, who is known to the kids of P.S. 309 as Coach G, is one of hundreds of coaches working in schools around the country as part of Playworks.
Editor’s Note: Playworks is an RWJF grantee.

More than half of doctors' offices and 80% of hospitals that provide Medicare or Medicaid will have electronic health records by the end of the year, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday.