In 2010, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) collaborated with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to launch the Initiative on the Future of Nursing. In 2011, the IOM released The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. In the fall of that year, RWJF convened 12 leaders from nurses’ and physicians’ organizations to frame a consensus document on collaboration between the two professions. However, this dialogue ended when the group’s draft report became public and several physician organizations withdrew from the project. In 2012, in this follow-up project, staff from the Center for Applied Research (CFAR), based in Cambridge, Mass., and Philadelphia, reconvened dialogue participants and interviewed them to glean lessons learned and suggest next steps for fostering interprofessional collaboration.
