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6. Why Now?
AHRQ NAC Briefing Institute of Medicine Future of Nursing Report
On November 4, 2011, Nancy Donaldson, Jan Wyatt made this presentation at the meeting of the National Advisory Council (NAC).

Images: Three text boxes show the following process:
Initiative on the Future of Nursing + Health reform → Chance to transform system to improve care.
To the right of this image are three cogwheels interlinked and turning together; one is labeled "access," the second "quality" and the largest cogwheel is labeled "Add value while slowing costs."
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Internet Citation: 6. Why Now?. Content last reviewed October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. https://archive.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2011-11-nac/donaldson_wyatt/donaldsl6.html