Nurse educators face a rapidly changing health care landscape. They must deal with changing student and patient demographics, a proliferation of technology, and the globalization of health care. There have been calls for changes to health professional education for decades because it will be the practitioners of the future who can most effectively change how care is delivered. Modern health care demands continuous system improvement to meet the needs for safety, effectiveness, patientcenteredness, efficiency, and equity. Health professional education must produce graduates proficient in core competencies but must also focus on ethical standards, cultural competence, prevention and primary care.