An Institute of Medicine report has called for registered nurses to achieve higher levels of education, but health care policy makers and others have limited evidence to support a substantial increase in the number of nurses with baccalaureate degrees. Using Pennsylvania nurse survey and patient discharge data from 1999 and 2006, we found that a ten-point increase in the percentage of nurses ho...

AIM The Institute of Medicine (IOM) challenged nursing education programs to increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree in nursing to 80 percent by 2020. BACKGROUND All 18 state-funded prelicensure nursing programs in New Mexico joined forces to create the New Mexico Nursing Education Consortium (NMNEC). METHOD NMNEC is a model of collaboration with a statewide common cur...

Proceedings are presented from a research conference to promote nursing research as a basis for policymaking in nursing practice, education, and health care services. The keynote address, by Patricia Jones, describes issues in health care financing in the 1980t and urges researchers to provide the kind of data and guidelines needed to support professional nursing services. The second paper, by ...

Teaching health centers were created as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Part C of title VII of the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 293k et. seq.], as amended by section 5303). The purpose of this legislation was to enhance the primary care workforce through funding graduate medical education in federally qualified health centers, community mental health centers, rur...

To meet the increasing demand for a more educated nursing workforce, the Regionally Increasing Baccalaureate Nurses (RIBN) initiative provides an economically feasible educational pathway between community colleges and universities so that more North Carolina nursing students can achieve a baccalaureate degree at the beginning of their career.

The overall purpose of this paper is to describe the process of utilizing community participation for curriculum design to develop a new school of nursing. A brief Community Needs Assessment Survey was carried out in order to explore community perceptions and expectations of Baccalaureate-prepared nurses in Jordan. The sample consisted of 152 participants who were staff nurses, nurse administra...

The preface to the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Future of Nursing (2011) report begins with a statement that the report is being published at a time of great opportunity in health care. As nurse educators, our great opportunity is the challenge to actualize the recommendations contained in the IOM report. Just as Robert Frost faced a divergence in the road, so too does our profession. Frost’s ...

BACKGROUND Recent occurrences of disaster events highlight the need for increased attention to improving students' knowledge of disaster readiness. Nursing education continues to struggle with the delivery of consistent, effective, and impactful teaching methods for disaster response. This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of using a simulated mass casualty incident (MCI) and Web-based r...

Rapidly increasing enrollment in Canadian schools of nursing has triggered the development of innovative clinical placement sites. There are both opportunities and challenges inherent in the delivery of clinical nursing education in diverse community settings. As part of the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing's (CASN) ongoing work to assist its members and ensure baccalaureate graduates...