Baccalaureate entry to practice: a systems view.
As the focus of health care shifts from inpatient hospital treatment to primary, community-based prevention, nurses will be required to learn new skills to take on new responsibilities. The authors use systems theory and a brief review of the history of nursing educational reform to explore the proposed requirement of a baccalaureate nursing degree for entry to practice and its potential effect on the nursing profession.
Way
Mary
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Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
MacNeil
Melanie
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