• Remove scope-of-practice barriers.• Expand opportunities for nurses to lead and diffuse collaborative improvement efforts.• Implement nurse residency programs.• Increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80 percent by 2020. • Double the number of nurses with a doctorate by 2020. • Ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning.•Prepare and enable nurses to lead change to advance health.•Build an infrastructure for the collection and analysis of inter-professional health care workforce data.
Penn Nursing researchers are available to discuss the progress of the recommendations, specifically:
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