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Nurse leadership was identified as essential to the advancement of health care in the State of Maryland. The State's Health Services Cost Review Commission's (HSCRC) committed to building the next generation of nurse leaders as part of its vision for advancing healthcare in Maryland. In 2015, HSCRC approved a $2.5 million, multiyear grant that supported development of the Nurse Leadership Institute (NLI) at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. The NLI designed a leadership development program that prepared nurse faculty and clinicians with critical competencies needed for assuming leadership positions unique to complex adaptive systems, facilitating collaborative partnerships between academia and practice, and ultimately improving health outcomes for Maryland's residents. This article is the first in a series reporting on outcomes of this initiative, which describes the design and implementation of the Nurse Leadership Institute, its Leadership Development Program, and preliminary findings for the first 4 years., (Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)

In 2000, the John A. Hartford Foundation launched a multi-million dollar investment in Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity (BAGNC) at the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). After a decade of focused support to increase scholarship, research, leadership, and institutional collaboration, is there evidence this program is successful in achieving its goals? Equally important, as the need for quality geriatric nursing care increases with the expanding aging population and associated complex health conditions, how does the experience and outcomes of this program inform nursing's future? To address both questions, the authors first provide an overview of geriatric nursing prior to and up to the time the BAGNC program began, then review results of an external evaluation of the BAGNC program, and finally propose goals and strategies for the next 20 years of academic geriatric nursing., (Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)