title: Entry: a new approach.
abstract: Despite all of the protections promised through grandfathering and pathways to educational mobility, the entry movement tends to be perceived by many to be "demoting" the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of RNs who do not possess the education to meet the proposed standard. Here is a proposal for a way out of the quagmire.
authors.affiliation: University of California, San Francisco.
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Styles
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Armstrong
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Matsuura
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stannard
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Ordway
mesh_terms: D000575:American Nurses' Association; D002322:Career Mobility; D003406:Credentialing; D004507:Education, Nursing, Associate; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000145:classification*; D011057:Politics; D014481:United States