title: Nursing education trends: future implications and predictions.
abstract: This article examines current trends in nursing education and proposes numerous transformations needed to ensure that programs are relevant, fully engage learners, reflect evidence-based teaching practices, and are innovative. Such program characteristics are essential if we are to graduate nurses who can practice effectively in today's complex, ambiguous, ever-changing health care environments and who are prepared to practice in and, indeed, shape tomorrow's unknown practice environments.
authors.affiliation: Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, NC 27710, USA. terry.valiga@duke.edu
authors.forename: Theresa M Terry
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Valiga
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods