The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE)j along with many other nursing specialty organizations, has been on a strategic journey to ensure public safety through an aggressive plan to minimize the nursing shortage. Partnerships with industry leaders such as Johnson & Johnson, the National Student Nurses Association, business groups and schools of nursing reinvigorated an interest in nursing, and we proudly proclaimed success. Within a relatively short time, we had a pipeline full of the best and brightest. We then switched our attention from that of recruitment to the current concerns related to faculty shortages. Advocacy groups across America Were actively pursuing innovative solutions to increase both numbers of and salaries for our colleagues practicing in academia.
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