title: Priming the pipeline: creating aspirations for new graduate nurses to enter ambulatory care nursing roles.
abstract: The magnitude and projected length of the nursing shortage coupled with the increasing demand for ambulatory care nurses requires that novel strategies to attract and recruit new ambulatory care nurses be implemented. Planning and implementation strategies aimed at the current pool of student nurses are discussed in detail. Initiatives to elicit support of current ambulatory care nurses, deans, directors and faculty of schools of nursing are also presented along with options for evaluation of such initiatives.
authors.affiliation: Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Sheila A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Haas