Nurse Leader
Volume 7, Issue 2 , Pages 48-52 , April 2009

Making the Business Case for Nursing to the Business Community and to CEOs

  • Susan B. Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN

      Affiliations

    • Susan B. Hassmiller, RN, PhD, FAAN, is Senior Advisor for Nursing at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, NJ and Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the Institute of Medicine in Washington, DC.
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  • Mary Ann Christopher, MSN, RN, FAAN

      Affiliations

    • Mary Ann Christopher, MSN, RN, FAAN, is president and CEO of the Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey in Red Bank, NJ

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doi: 10.1016/j.mnl.2008.05.001

Nurse Leader
Volume 7, Issue 2 , Pages 48-52 , April 2009