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Joining Forces: The Status Of Military And Veteran Health Care In Nursing Curricula, Brenda Elliott, Barbara Patterson

Nursing (Graduate) Educator Scholarship

© 2016 Elsevier Inc. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, there are approximately 23 million veterans living in the United States. In 2012, the Joining Forces initiative highlighted the need to enhance nursing education for the military and veteran population. With the drawdown of 2 long, large-scale conflicts, a young cohort of veterans presented new challenges in health care. Although not necessarily a traditional vulnerable population, given their emergent health care needs, they are vulnerable. Purnell's Model for Cultural Competence provided a framework for this exploratory descriptive study. A national on-line survey of 123 nursing programs that pledged to …