We support programs promoting the nursing profession and provide leadership and development opportunities to further the field. In Africa, we teach student nurses basic skills in surgery, trauma and midwifery. In the U.S., we manage a campaign to educate the public about careers in nursing. Nurses from around the world learn about essential business management techniques through programs we support.

The Campaign for Nursing’s Future
Now in its eighth year, this public awareness campaign in the U.S. is designed to enhance the image of the nursing profession, recruit new nurses and faculty, and help keep current nurses in the field. The campaign includes public awareness activities, recruitment materials, and scholarships and grants.
Discover Nursing

Johnson & Johnson – Wharton Fellowship Program in Management for Nurse Executives
For more than 25 years, we have partnered with the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania to provide senior nurse executives with essential business management knowledge for health care industry leadership. This program has graduated nearly 1,000 senior nurse executives from several countries since 1982. Many graduates have advanced to senior management positions in their hospitals and health care organizations.
Wharton Fellows Program

SOS Children’s Villages
SOS Children’s Villages addresses neglected, abandoned and orphaned children’s needs, concerns and rights in over 130 countries, providing them with homes, vocational and professional education, and health care. Through SOS, we sponsor a program for 20 student nurses in Mogadishu, Somalia. Youth are trained to become nurses, gaining valuable experience in surgery, trauma care and midwifery along the way. Beyond providing full scholarships and preparing these students for successful careers, the program fills a desperate need for more skilled nurses in Somalian communities.

Johnson & Johnson School Health Leadership Program
Children often turn to the school nurse when they feel sick or depressed. School nurses can build relationships with students unlike any other teacher, as they are trained to deal with health-related situations. Often, they are the first to recognize when a child is having an alcohol- or drug-related problem. For more than 20 years, this program has offered a training forum for school nurses on new alcohol and drug prevention techniques, mental health issues, obesity, and HIV/AIDS-prevention education plans. The Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, manages the program.
School Health Leadership Program