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 ...

The challenges of providing exemplary undergraduate nursing education cannot be underestimated in an era when burnout and negative mood states predictably lead to alarming rates of academic as well as career attrition. While the multi-dimensional nature of this complex issue has been extensively elucidated, few rational strategies exist to reverse a disheartening trend recognizable early in the...

Roughly 40% of the nearly 3 million registered nurses (RNs) in the United States have an associate's degree (ADN) as their highest level of nursing education. Yet even before the recent Institute of Medicine report on The Future of Nursing, employers of RNs have increasingly preferred baccalaureate-prepared RNs (BSNs), at least anecdotally. Data from the American Community Survey (2003-2013) we...

By-Walsh, Joan E.; Taylor, Cecelia Monat An Approach to the Teaching of Psychiatric Nursing in Diploma and Associate Degree Programs: A Method for Content Integration and Course Development in the Curriculum. National League for Nursing, New York, N.Y. Research and Development. Spons Agency-National Inst. of Mental Health (DHEW), Bethesda, Md. Report No-NLN-19-1336 Pub Date 68 . Note-85p. Avail...