The newly revised Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice states that "a solid base in liberal education provides the cornerstone for the practice and education of nurses." Liberal education is thought to provide professional nurses with some of the necessary skills needed to practice nursing, including critical thinking, effective communication, collaboration with others, appreciation of diversity, and the integration of knowledge from the sciences and humanities to solve problems. However, liberal education is viewed by many faculty as separate from the nursing curriculum: the courses taken prior to the nursing courses. Seeking strategies that would require students in our required gerontology nursing course to incorporate principles of liberal education, we developed the Life Review Project.
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