How it began : the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and nursing
Remove scope-of-practice barriers
Opportunities for nurses to lead and diffuse collaborative improvement efforts
Implement nurse residency programs
Increase proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80% by 2020
Double the number of nurses with doctorates by 2020
Ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning
Prepare and enable nurses to lead change to advance health
Build an infrastructure to collect and analyze interprofessional health care workforce data
Afterword : Where do we go from here?
