The future of nursing and the health of North Carolinians: The North Carolina summit
Wilmoth, M.C.
North Carolina Medical Journal 72(4): 278-281
2011
ISSN/ISBN: 0029-2559 PMID: 22128687 Document Number: 655571
Nurse leaders in North Carolina convened the Statewide Summit for Creating the Future of Nursing and Health Care in North Carolina on April 11, 2011. This article summarizes the summit and lays out the way ahead for implementing, in North Carolina, recommendations from the report on the future of nursing recently published by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM). A synopsis of the commentaries composing the policy forum of this issue of the NCMJ follows, linking them to the IOM report.