Beyond Florence Nightingale: The General Professional Education of the Nurse.

Pounds, Lois A.

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ERIC Number: EJ385718

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Publication Date: 1989

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Beyond Florence Nightingale: The General Professional Education of the Nurse.

Pounds, Lois A.

Academic Medicine, v64 n2 p67-69 Feb 1989

Nurses must leave nursing to advance their careers. A rigorous preprofessional science preparation and nursing education at the baccalaureate level followed by a clinical internship is proposed. Nurses would be able to achieve specialty education either by graduate education or through experience and continuing nursing education. (Author/MLW)

Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Higher Education, Medical Education, Nurses, Nurses Aides, Nursing, Nursing Education, Professional Recognition, Promotion (Occupational)

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Language: English

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