The G.O.P. claims the Massachusetts Senate seat and sends Dems scrambling to salvage their health overhaul effort.
KHN Column: Give Nurses A Bigger Role In Improving Health Care In a column for Kaiser Health News, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, writes the following: "Skilled health provider. Sympathetic caregiver. Trusted dispenser of medicines. Capable interpreter of complicated medical instructions. Coordinator of care. Triage expert. All those phrases describe the roles nurses play in our health care system, but it's just a part of the story. Nurses also are uniquely positioned to help reduce medical errors, increase access to health care, manage and improve care coordination, identify ways to contain costs, and much more (Kaiser Health News).