In her editorial in the May/June 2021 issue of Nephrology Nursing Journal (NNJ), Editor-in-Chief Beth Ulrich, EdD, RN, FACHE, FAAN, FAONL, discusses how the visions of various healthcare thought leaders converged this spring to recognize the competence, knowledge, access, and expertise of nurses and the importance of their role in transforming health care. “The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the International Council of Nurses (ICN), the American Nurses Association (ANA), the Tri-Council, and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) have all called for the transformation of health care and/or nursing. The works of these independent organizations, some of which had been in progress for several years, all came forward within a few weeks of each other with remarkable similarity in their identification of needs, solutions, and the role of nursing as the group best qualified and positioned to accomplish this transformation of nursing and health care.”
