The nursing workforce plays a central role in our present health care system, and will likely have an even greater role in the future. Nurses already provide the vast majority of care to patients in hospitals, and so it should come as no surprise that the quality of nursing care affects patient outcomes. Over the past decade, studies have linked certain nursing characteristics--such as staffing...

HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH IMPACTS DEBATE In a highly controversial decision in 1965, the American Nurses Association called for the baccalaureate degree in nursing (BSN) to be required for licensure of professional nurses by 1985. However, hospital diploma education—the pathway to nursing for most students in 1965—gave way not to bachelor’s education but largely to associate degree education, fu...

BACKGROUND Over the last years, details regarding levels of stress and sources of stress have emerged in studies of nursing students in Western population To date, there only few similar reports on clinical stress, anxiety, depression among the Arab population .This study was conducted to examine the level of perceived stress among baccalaureate Mansoura nursing students and to highlight the po...

As nurse educators prepare new graduates for practice, part of the challenge is to ensure that these nurses are capable of functioning in a broad continuum of care with increased responsibilities. To identify competencies needed by new baccalaureate graduates in today's health care environment and determine whether these competencies fall into particular dimensions, a cross-sectional survey des...

In Morocco, as in many other countries of North Africa and Middle East, access to education has improved during the last few decades, gender gaps secondary school enrolment have already disappeared. addition, there is increasing evidence that girls been outperforming boys decade. The aim this study was assess differences three Moroccan high schools. Data collected, August-October 2022, from res...

The conversion of a newly accredited, hospital-based, certificate nurse anesthesia program into a 29-month regionalized graduate program is described. Students who complete the program receive an MS degree in biology nurse anesthesia. A concurrent degree track is offered to CRNAs who hold a baccalaureate degree.

Despite political support for the baccalaureate degree as entry to practice, historical concerns over nursing education - the value of education versus service, professional versus vocational identity and theoretical versus practical knowledge - persist. The authors challenge the notion of a "two-tiered" nursing system and call for a nationwide curriculum review to help the profession adapt to ...

Historically, in the absence of baccalaureate education in the public health, entry level education was offered at the graduate level in the Master of Public Health (MPH) degree. As MPH education was not preceded by baccalaureate education in the discipline, there are not typically prerequisite requirements for MPH admission, and introductory coursework in public health has always been offered ...