Cindy Kamikawa Jillian Inouye Partnership to Build Research Capacity

314 THE WORLDS OF NURSING education and practice have developed along parallel tracks resulting in cultures with different expectations and work styles. Leaders in contemporary nursing education acknowledge the separation from practice and the difficulty of education to keep pace with the speed of change occurring in the delivery of health care. Today’s nursing leaders are setting the stage for the next evolution – bringing together skilled clinicians and administrators with peers in education to create new approaches to leading the profession forward. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the Association of Nurse Executives have endorsed creating strategic alliances between community and academe (AACN, 1999). Building on the lessons learned, nursing is choosing to move beyond our separate history to create the next generation of models to lead our profession forward (Benner, Sutphen, Leonard, & Day, 2010; Campbell, Prater, Schwartz, & Ridenour, 2001; MacPhee, 2009; Stanley, Hoiting, Burton, Harris, & Norman, 2007). Partnerships, alliances, and collaborations are prevalent in government, business, and the non-profit sectors. Partnerships share goals, common purpose, mutual respect and willingness to EXECUTIVE SUMMARY