# Building Stronger Academic Partnerships to Strengthen the Nursing Workforce Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/becker-s-healthcare-podcast-484089/building-stronger-academic-partnerships-to-strengthen-the-nursing-workforce Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/becker-s-healthcare-podcast-484089/building-stronger-academic-partnerships-to-strengthen-the-nursing-workforce.md Podcast: [Becker’s Healthcare Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/becker-s-healthcare-podcast-484089) Published: 2026-06-30T10:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://podcast.show/beckershealthcarepodcast/episode/154158453/ Audio file: https://media.blubrry.com/beckershealthcarepodcast/ins.blubrry.com/beckershealthcarepodcast/BKR_HC_Orbis_Education_Sponsored_P_6-30-26_RD1.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/becker-s-healthcare-podcast-484089/episodes/building-stronger-academic-partnerships-to-strengthen-the-nursing-workforce Duration seconds: 1735 ## Resource In this episode, Wendy Merchant-Schulte, Vice President of Nursing Services at Orbis, and Dr. Hollie Caldwell, Dean of the College of Nursing at Concordia University, discuss how collaborative academic and healthcare partnerships can create more consistent, student-centered nursing education while strengthening the workforce pipeline. This episode is sponsored by Orbis Education . ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/becker-s-healthcare-podcast-484089/episodes/building-stronger-academic-partnerships-to-strengthen-the-nursing-workforce/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/becker-s-healthcare-podcast-484089/building-stronger-academic-partnerships-to-strengthen-the-nursing-workforce.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.