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Health Aff (Millwood). 2009 Jul-Aug;28(4):w634-45. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.4.w634. Epub 2009 Jun 12.

Expanding the capacity of nursing education.

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Brenda L Cleary, Angela Barron McBride, Margaret L McClure, Susan C Reinhard

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  1. Center to Champion Nursing in America, AARP, Washington, D.C., USA. [email protected]

PMID: 19525284 DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.4.w634

Abstract

Assuring a nurse workforce that is large enough and possesses the right competencies for the changing demographic and health reform scenarios of the early twenty-first century is nothing short of an imperative. Getting there will involve continual recruitment of a talented and diverse group of people and increasing nurses' progression to a more highly educated workforce, no matter where they enter the profession. These actions will enable the United States to fill vacant nursing faculty positions as we simultaneously re-create how nursing education is delivered in this country. The nation's health is dependent on the actions we now take.

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