11th Annual Littlefield Leadership Lecture (Flash video, 2:41 hrs)

Donna Shalala, president of the University of Miami and former chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, delivers highlights from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the Institute of Medicine.

Shalala serves as co-chair of this initiative, which was organized in response to a continuing nursing shortage, limited educational opportunities for nursing and rapidly changing technology.

The initiative's recommendations were released on October 5, 2010 in the report,  The Future of Nursing:  Leading Change, Advancing Health available at:  http://www.iom.edu/nursing. The recommendations include new ways to recruit, educate and retain nurses; to deliver nursing in a variety of settings; and to address nursing's role in the health care workforce.

More information about the Initiative on the Future of Nursing can be found at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation website:  http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=44748

The session includes a response panel with key leaders in health care education and practice. The panelists are:

• Katharyn May, Dean, UW-Madison School of Nursing
• Carolyn Krause, President, Wisconsin Nurses Association
• Richard Sinaiko, founder and CEO, Sinaiko Healthcare Consulting