Conference

2016 Conference: Registered Nurses: Partners in Transforming Primary Care

The 2016 conference explored opportunities to increase the nation’s primary care capacity by expanding the role of registered nurses (RNs). Conferees generated actionable recommendations around the potential for RNs to help meet the needs of primary care.

In 2016, the Macy Foundation conference explored opportunities to increase the nation’s primary care capacity by expanding the role of registered nurses (RNs). Conferees—including more than 40 leaders in primary care, representing academic nursing and medicine, health care delivery organizations, professional nursing associations, health care philanthropy, nursing students, and others—generated actionable recommendations around the potential for RNs to help meet the needs of primary care.