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Jayne Jennings Dunlap1, Staci Reynolds, Julee Waldrop
1Jayne Jennings Dunlap is the DNP program director at Texas Woman's University College of Nursing in Houston, TX. Staci Reynolds is a clinical professor and Julee Waldrop is a consulting associate, both at the Duke University School of Nursing in Durham, NC. Contact author: Jayne Jennings Dunlap, jdunlap1@twu.edu. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
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