Stuart H. Altman

TL;DR: Three recommendations for transforming nursing education are offered: create new nursing education systems which use existing resources in community colleges and universities and which provide for common prerequisites and a shared competency-based nursing curriculum and instructional materials, and invest in a national initiative to develop and evaluate new approaches to pre-licensing clinical education.

TL;DR: Analysis of pediatric hospitalizations in the Colorado and Utah Medical Practice Study involved a retrospective, 2-level medical record review of a population-based, representative sample of all pediatric hospital discharges, suggesting that 60% of these events may be preventable.

TL;DR: The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health as mentioned in this paper, which made a series of recommendations pertaining to roles for nurses in the new health care landscape, assesses progress made by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/AARP Future Of Nursing: Campaign for Action and others in implementing the recommendations from the 2010 report and identifies areas that should be emphasized over the next 5 years to make further progress toward these goals.

TL;DR: Two Sounding Board articles discuss different approaches to controlling rising health care costs in the United States and hope the range of options presented will stimulate discussion and debate on the best ways to bend the health care cost curve.