title: The changing dynamics of pediatric pre-licensure education.
abstract: Pediatric nursing educators in both academic and practice settings have expressed significant concerns regarding the decreased amount of pediatric content and clinical experiences within pre-licensure educational programs. In addition, data gathered at a national conference of pediatric staff nurses, researchers, educators and administrators indicated there are concerns about the quality and quantity of future pediatric-nurse educators, the availability of acute care learning experiences, as well as the changing nature of today's nursing students and children's families.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.
authors.forename: Janice
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Selekman
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Woodring
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008008:Licensure, Nursing; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D013338:Students, Nursing