Innovation through collaboration.
In light of the Canadian Nurses Association's position that the baccalaureate degree would be the requirement for entry to practice by the year 2000, plus evidence of a rapidly changing health care system, changing client characteristics, and on-going economic constraints, administrators of nursing programs in Edmonton recognized the need for a more process-oriented curriculum to prepare nurses to be more capable of facing future challenges. Not surprisingly, limited funds and differing human and material resources meant they could not complete a major curriculum change individually. Collaboration proved to be the key that increased access to baccalaureate nursing education in Alberta.
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Day
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Gibson
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Profetto-McGrath
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Shantz
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Young
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D002170:Canada; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations