title: Overcoming Barriers.
abstract: Dr. Neal-Boylan's program of scholarship has always focused on nurse workforce issues. She recently published two books related to how nurses work. One (The Nurse's Reality Gap: Overcoming Barriers Between Academic Achievement and Clinical Success; Neal-Boylan, 2013) focused on the experience of new graduates from baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral programs. The second book, The Nurse's Reality Shift: Using Our History to Transform Our Future (Neal-Boylan, 2014), focuses on the problems nursing continues to face throughout our history and has failed to correct.
authors.affiliation: Dr. Neal-Boylan's programof scholarship has always focused on nurse workforce issues. She recently published two books related to how nurses work. One (The Nurse's Reality Gap: Overcoming Barriers Between Academic Achievement and Clinical Success; Neal-Boylan, 2013) focused on the experience of new graduates from baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral programs. The second book, The Nurse's Reality Shift: Using Our History to Transform Our Future (Neal-Boylan, 2014), focuses on the problems nursing continues to face throughout our history and has failed to correct. Leslie Neal-Boylan, PPhD, APRN, FAAN is Dean and Professor, University of Wisconsin- Oshkosh College of Nursing.
authors.forename: Leslie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Neal-Boylan
authors.forename: Kari L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Schmidt
mesh_terms: D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D007397:Internship, Nonmedical; D009726:Nurses; D013192:Staff Development