The NEC Board works to implement its Strategic Plan through five initiatives.

1. Increase the effectiveness and efficiency of nursing education:
   1. By expanding cultural learning approaches awareness among current nurse educators and
   2. By identifying, training and recruiting the “best and brightest nurses” as nurse educators to meet the expanding student population demands and replace current educators who retire.
2. Seek sustaining funding for the Bilingual Nursing Scholars Initiative to recruit, educate and retain bilingual nursing students from the public schools in Springdale and Siloam Springs.
3. Enhance, coordinate and automate the clinical experience of nursing students in area hospitals, clinics and long-term care facilities through online scheduling on the NEC website (www.nwansged.org).
4. Collaborate in a shared nursing simulation laboratory, practice laboratory and classroom facility at NTI.
5. Research, publish and disseminate scholarly articles on NEC initiative outcomes.

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