title: Lessons learned from a history of perseverance and innovation in academic-practice partnerships.
abstract: Nurse leaders today are faced with a pressing concern to reevaluate established community resources and models for academic-practice partnerships that have been used in the preparation of new and advanced practice nurses. Nursing reform in education and practice is not achieved as a simple series of decisions in the present moment with future direction as its object. It is a process in which the outcome is ultimately evaluated within the context of history. Academic-practice partnerships are part of a nursing heritage that has persevered for hundreds of years. This article is a brief synopsis of examples from the historical records that evidence the lessons learned from the experiences of nurses who have formed innovative academic-practice partnerships with religious communities, medical colleges and physicians, government, hospitals, institutions of higher learning, and nursing organizations.
authors.affiliation: Director and Chair of Nursing, College of Health and Human Services, Governors State University, University Park, IL 60484, USA. martha@goldenapplehealingarts.com
authors.forename: Martha Mathews
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Libster
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007857:Leadership; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*