The RIBN initiative: a new effort to increase the number of baccalaureate nurses in North Carolina.
To meet the increasing demand for a more educated nursing workforce, the Regionally Increasing Baccalaureate Nurses (RIBN) initiative provides an economically feasible educational pathway between community colleges and universities so that more North Carolina nursing students can achieve a baccalaureate degree at the beginning of their career.
Corresponding author: Foundation for Nursing Excellence, Raleigh, NC, USA. polly.johnson@ffne.org.
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