An Open Letter to Members of the Nursing Education Community.

The challenge of our time is to demonstrate flexibility, adaptability, and kindness as we shift the curriculum to virtual environments, defer hands-on clinical training to ensure that front-line staff have the necessary personal protective equipment (PPE), and reinforce principals of social distancing to our families and the general public Nursing faculty and nursing education researchers should work in partnership starting now to ensure that valuable qualitative and quantitative data on the feasibility and effectiveness of various instructional approaches and methods at the individual student, individual course, and program levels produced during this crisis are rigorously and ethically collected and the results from these analyses quickly disseminated Amy J Barton, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANEF Editor Teri A Murray, PhD, APHN-BC, RN, FAAN Associate Editor Darrell R Spurlock, Jr , PhD, RN, NEA-BC, ANEF Assistant Editor Table 1 Helpful Resources for Nurse Educators Resource URL About COVID-19 https://nursingeditors com/inane-covid-19-resources/ Comprehensive Data Visualizations and Analysis on COVID-19 (Oxford University) https://ourworldindata org/coronavirus COVID-19 Resource Page from the National League for Nursing http://www nln org/coronavirus-resource-center Coronavirus Resources for Nurse Educators from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing https://www aacnnursing org/News-Information/COVID-19 The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise