The Compendium includes successful practices that merit replication throughout the state. Many excellent innovations and programs have been created through public/private partnerships to respond to the difficulties facing nursing education today. These efforts include partnerships between schools of nursing, hospitals, health systems, and foundations. The Compendium, Second Edition, has been prepared in an attempt to update the successful innovative practices and the partnerships that support them that were published in the First Edition and add new programs /partnerships that have been initiated. To create the Compendium, numerous deans and directors of nursing programs, and healthcare nursing service administrators shared their successful innovative approaches with CINHC.