title: Starting an accelerated baccalaureate nursing program: challenges and opportunities for creative educational innovations.
abstract: Accelerated baccalaureate nursing programs provide many benefits to students, faculty, nursing educational institutions, and health care institutions. Students, faculty, and nursing program administrators also face a variety of challenges with accelerated programs. This article reviews what is known about accelerated programs, strategies undertaken during the start-up of a new program to enhance its success, and evaluation of the new program. In addition, implications for future research and nursing education are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Mennonite College of Nursing, Illinois State University, Campus Box 5810, Normal, IL 61790, USA. pllinds@ilstu.edu
authors.forename: Pamela
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lindsey
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods*; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States