1. Judith A. Halstead, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN Indiana University School of Nursing Indiana State Nurses Association Annual Meeting September 28, 2012

2. Nurses Should Practice to the Full Extent of Their Education and Training

3.  Remove scope of practice barriers  Expand opportunities for nurses to lead and diffuse collaborative improvement efforts  Implement nurse residency programs

4.  Develop skills related to quality improvement, research, improving health care outcomes, cost reduction, collaboration, developing patient- centered care models, entrepreneurship, advocacy  Interprofessional education and practice  Focus on transition from education to practice through prelicensure and advanced practice residencies, across all care settings

5. Nurses Should Achieve Higher Levels of Education and Training Through an Improved Education System That Promotes Seamless Academic Progression

6.  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

7.  Seamless academic progression  RN-BSN education  APRN education  Academic/practice partnerships  Student and faculty diversity  Faculty capacity  Advanced degrees  Faculty development – novice and experienced  New clinical models

8. Nurses Should Be Full Partners, with Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals, in Redesigning Health Care in the United States.

9.  Prepare and enable nurses to lead change to advance health

10.  Take responsibility to seek leadership development at all levels  Integrate leadership theory and business practices across nursing curricula

11. Effective Workforce Planning and Policy Making Require Better Data Collection and Information Infrastructure

12.  Build an infrastructure for the collection and analysis of interprofessional health care workforce data

13.  Standardized minimum data sets across states and health care disciplines  Collaboration amongst state boards, workforce centers, HRSA, Dept. of Labor  Goal of improving data collection and analysis, timeliness of data and public accessibility to data  Indiana Center for Nursing

14.  Nursing students  Frontline nurses  Community nurses  Chief nursing officers  Nurse educators  Nursing organizations