title: Does the baccalaureate make a difference?: Differentiating nurse performance by education and experience.
abstract: The nursing profession continues to debate the question of whether level of education matters in performance once the nurse is oriented to a particular setting, or whether the assumed advantages of baccalaureate education can be substituted by on-the-job experience. In this study, nurses with a baccalaureate degree demonstrated more nursing competencies when compared with their associate degree or diploma colleagues. Results also suggest that education promotes a broader range of abilities than does experience.
mesh_terms: D003210:Concept Formation; D004507:Education, Nursing, Associate; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004510:Education, Nursing, Diploma Programs; D004532:Ego; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D011361:Professional Competence; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States