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Explore each Institutional Conditions below to discover strategies, real-world case scenarios, and tools designed to help academic nursing programs turn the Ecosystem of Excellence into everyday practice.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2021). The future of nursing 2020–2030: Charting a path to achieve health equity. https://doi.org/10.17226/25982
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