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Nursing Education

In the contemporary health care environment, the traditional differentiation in nursing education primarily between two-year programs and baccalaureate programs, with a much smaller number of doctoral programs, has been superseded by an environment wherein several preparatory levels for advanced practice nursing exist and wherein the demand for nurses educated at the doctoral level is increasing. While the increasing complexity of the structure of professional education for nurses causes some concern among traditionalists in the profession, the changing health care environment in the United States makes it imperative for nurses to be educated for a variety practice levels if the profession is to maintain and improve its position within the health care establishment.

As the profession of nursing becomes increasingly complex, nurses assume greater responsibilities in the areas of clinical practice, theory development, and the advance of nursing science through research (Krouse & Holloran, 1992). That a shortage of qualified and quality nursing personnel exists for these increasingly demanding responsibilities is documented (Ryan & Irvine, 1994).

What appears to be lacking is a critical mass of doctorally prepared nurses who actually work in professional service rather than in the teaching. Nursing is in need of clinical leaders who have competence as investigators, collaborators, communicators, and disseminators. These nurses must be able to transform their own thinking as well as that of others.

Nursing has a unique perspective and health care is highly complex. The increased complexity of health care demands that nurses be skilled in communication, technically competent, and analytically able clinicians.

Before institutions of higher education can commit resources to the development of doctoral programs in nursing, however, there must be some degree of assurance that demand will exist in their service areas for the pr...

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