2008 Nursing Education Capacity Summit Final Report

Abstract

The U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Center to Champion Nursing in America, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration sponsored a national Nursing Education Capacity Summit that addressed critical issues faced by colleges and universities face in educating nurses.

The Nursing Education Capacity Summit focused on four key aspects of  increasing nursing education capacity: 1) Strategic Partnerships and Resource Alignment; 2) The Role of Policy and Regulation; 3) Increasing Faculty Capacity and Diversity; and 4) Education Redesign. States were invited to assemble a team and required to bring representation from each of the seven categories including: the nursing education system; employers of nurses; the Workforce Investment System; regulatory bodies; nursing leadership, government agencies, policymakers and policy and consumer advocates; and State or regional philanthropic organizations.