A newly appointed senior vce president for nursing/chief nursing officer at a Magnet® -recognized ®large academic medical center (AMC) identifies outdated practice guidelines during her first few weeks in the position. Although this AMC has had a longstanding affiliation with its academic counterpart, a formal academic-practice partnership has never been established.

a. Beginning with a list of reasons why an academic-practice partnership should be considered in this specific situation, describe the steps to developing the partnership and identify at least one possible obstacle that could be encountered at each step.

b. Discuss ways to address each of the obstacles so that success could be ensured.

c. Calculate the ROI for your organization to train RNs for any specialty with vacancies in your organization using the HealthImpact ROI Worksheet Template, downloadable from https://healthimpact.org/resources/publications/

(download this ROI Worksheet Template from https://healthimpact.org/

resources/publications).