title: Liberal and professional undergraduate nursing education: maintaining the connections.
abstract: Current recommendations to improve undergraduate education range from increasing the proportion of general education credits to removing professional preparation from undergraduate education. The authors argue for the necessity of integrating general education and professional preparation throughout all levels of higher education. A conceptual framework to study professional preparation developed by Stark et al. is presented. Methods to integrate both general education and professional preparation are analyzed, and specific implications for nursing are discussed.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire 54702.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Morse
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Bottoms
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Wastlick
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D006809:Humanities; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D011361:Professional Competence