The clinical nurse specialist: leadership in quality improvement.

Healthcare delivery is in a crisis, requiring improvement. How to improve and who should assume more leadership are not clear. At the same time, the nursing profession struggles with a weak education system, graduating students who require major support for an extended time.

The movement to improve care: the Institute of Medicine quality reports and implications for the advanced practice registered nurse.

Since the late 1990s, there has been a movement in the United States to improve care. Nursing has been slow to embrace this movement. Nursing education was particularly slow in recognizing that the movement and the problem of health care quality related to nursing education, both undergraduate and graduate.

Educational and service partnerships: an example of global flattening.

Educational and service partnerships are not new, but many of these partnerships occurred in the same town or state in the past. Today, with the heightened use of technology, these partnerships are spanning the globe (e.g.