title: Russian Nursing Education Reform Project: new nurses for a new Russia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe a 2-year nursing exchange project, 1992-1994, designed to assess Russian nursing education and to make recommendations for change.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Nursing education in Russia is at a level similar to vocational schools in the United States and is closely linked to medicine. Russian nurse educators were assisted in developing a philosophy of nursing, developing definitions for nursing, and incorporating process into practice.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Russian government and Russian nurse educators are committed to improving the quality of health care and nursing. This exchange project provided an impetus for the movement of Russian nursing education toward a process-based baccalaureate model.
authors.affiliation: Azusa Pacific University, School of Nursing, CA, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rosebrough
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D007393:International Educational Exchange; D017145:Models, Educational; D015402:Nursing Education Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016730:Program Development; D012426:Russia; D014481:United States