Executive Summary: Findings from the Annual Survey of Schools of Nursing Academic Year 2009-2010: NLN Annual Survey Finds both Progress and Future Challenges in Meeting IOM Objectives (Headlines from the NLN‪)‬

THIS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY describes findings from the NLN's Annual Survey of Schools of Nursing, administered from October to December 2010. While a core strength of the Annual Survey is its long-term trend data, which allow scholars to track fluctuations in key educational statistics since as early as the 1950s, new topics and analyses are also introduced on occasion to capture and assess emerging issues in nursing education. The recent release of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Future of Nursing report represents such an opportunity.