Academic service partnerships: organizational efficiency and efficacy between organizations.

Two leading nursing organizations, the Greater Kansas City Area Collegiate Nurse Educators and the Kansas City Area Nurse Executives, represent the Kansas City metropolitan area nursing programs and area employers. These two organizations have been engaged in collaborative workforce planning and strategy development around key nursing issues for over 25 years. This model of collaboration is unique in that the partnership is between organizations representing 17 nursing programs and 28 hospitals. The collaborative partnership has enhanced organizational efficiency and efficacy between the groups, which has directly benefited the organizational members. Most importantly, it has had a transformative impact on both nursing education and professional practice in the Kansas City metropolitan area. This article describes the evolution of the partnership and the collaborative work that has led to the accomplishment of mutual goals. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Susan H Fetsch, Nancy O DeBasio. Academic service partnerships: organizational efficiency and efficacy between organizations. Journal of professional nursing : official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. 2011 Nov-Dec;27(6):e82-9

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PMID: 22142933

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