Blowing Open the Bottleneck: Designing New Approaches to Increase Nurse Education Capacity

Abstract

This paper was commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; the Center to Champion Nursing in America; and the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration to provide background for participants attending the national Nursing Education Summit in June 2008.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a concise but comprehensive understanding of the complexity of nursing education capacity and to inform Summit participants of pioneering solutions currently in development across the nation. The paper is designed to stimulate innovative thinking and help multi-stakeholder teams develop and implement creative solutions to the challenge of insufficient nursing education capacity.