title: Education is the key to nurses' survival.
abstract: Nurses must be prepared academically to survive in the current and future competitive world of health care. Bachelor's and master's degree programs enhance nurses' abilities to apply the nursing process in increasingly complex health care environments, to document patient outcomes, to study new ways of delivering quality nursing care, and to assume leadership roles that will guarantee nursing's position in a reformed health care system.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Syracuse University, NY.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Morey-Pedersen
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States