The 'Seamless' Model of Nursing Education BSN-to-PhD programs can address faculty shortages.

摘要

Nurses prepared at different levels of education make meaningful contributions to the discipline of nursing, whether at the bedside, in lecture halls where future nurses are educated, or through research that advances the science of nursing. All of these are necessary. According to American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) data, only 1 % of nurses hold a doctoral degree. Owing to this severe shortage of doctorally prepared nurses, research contributions that could advance practice are not being made and the education of new nurses is being undermined. One measure that could mitigate this shortage is a wider embrace of a seamless model of nursing education, in which students enter graduate programs immediately after completing undergraduate studies.