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Susan
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Hello Avery,
Comments like these are unfortunate but reflect more on the lack of understanding of the role and what it prepares graduates to accomplish than on your decision. Our choices to pursue different educational paths our careers are very personal decisions based on career goals, values, and interests. We should not have to justify them to anyone but alas it happens. Comments like these do give us an invited opportunity to improve the understanding of others by clarifying that health care is extremely complex and in this country it is very broken. Additional education is the path to improve health care outcomes by developing advanced knowledge and skills in nursing, executive leadership, change theory, political advocacy, and translating evidence into practice.