Student’s Academic Transition Issues: Associate Degree to Baccalaureate Nursing

Student’s Academic Transition Issues: Associate Degree to Baccalaureate Nursing

Health care requires increasing the number and quality of registered nurses to the baccalaureate level to address part of the critical nurse shortage problem and need for highly qualified professionals. Two major national initiatives examining the nursing workforce issue in the United States recommend decreasing barriers, refining academic pathways and facilitating nurses return to school for h...

Professional values held by baccalaureate and associate degree nursing students.

PURPOSE To determine the congruency in value orientation of graduating students in baccalaureate and associate degree programs. DESIGN AND METHODS A survey design with a convenience sample of 1,450 graduating nursing students from all baccalaureate and associate degree nursing programs in Texas. Data were collected using the Nurses Professional Values Scale (NPVS). Descriptive and parametric ...

Academic Progression for Associate Degree Nursing Students: Evolution, Not Revolution.

As I fi nish my 37th year as an associate degree nurse educator, I am very proud to see associate (ADN), baccalaureate (BSN), and master’s (MSN) degree programs collaborating to ensure that the health care system has the right nurse in the right role. The last time this collaboration occurred was during the Colleagues in Caring initiative, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF, ...

Improving associate degree nursing students' perioperative clinical observation experiences.

For associate degree nursing students at Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, the perioperative nursing clinical experience typically included a one-day observation of a surgical procedure, with students entering the OR suite after the surgery started and having to leave before the surgery was completed. An associate professor of nursing and a perioperative staff education coordinator partner...

Overcoming: A Theory of Accelerated Second-Degree Baccalaureate Graduate Nurse Transition to Professional Nursing Practice