title: The future of nursing and the health of North Carolinians: The North Carolina summit.
abstract: 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.
authors: School of Nursing, CHHS, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28269, USA. mcwilmot@uncc.edu
authors: Margaret C
authors: MC
authors: Wilmoth
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic; D004506:Education, Nursing; D005544:Forecasting; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D015969:National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division; D009657:North Carolina; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States