by Sister Rosemary Donley, RN, PhD, C-ANP, FAAN and
Sister Mary Jean Flaherty, RN, PhD, FAAN
Expiration Date: December 31, 2010
No CE contact hours (CH) will be given after this date.
Abstract & Objectives
Purpose: The mission of this article is to turn the clock back and compare the nursing education scene of the 1960’s to contemporary educational practice.Objectives:
1. Discuss the impact of the American Nurses' Association's 1965 statement on the education of nurses on both nursing education and practice.2. Identify issues and changes that have occurred over the past 40 years that have placed increasing demands on health care delivery systems, finance and administration of health care, and nursing education and practice.
Abstract: Specifically, the authors will re-examine their 2002 paper (the former version of this CE module), a discussion of the rationale and impact of the American Nurses’ Association’s 1965 statement on the education of nurses, in light of the recent statements of the Association of Deans of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) (Donley & Flaherty, 2002; AACN, 2004). The October, 2004 pronouncement of the Association of Deans of Colleges of Nursing (2004), public and professional concern with safety and the quality of patient care (Kohn, Corrigon, & Donaldson 2000), the serious nursing and nurse faculty shortages (Yordy, 2006), and the recent statement of the Institute of Medicine (2003) about the preparation of health professionals have prompted the On-line Journal in Nursing (OJIN) to re-look at perennial questions about the educational preparation of nurses.
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