Innovating Nursing Education: Community Colleges Granting 4-Year Degrees
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Our healthcare system is increasingly requiring a more educated workforce to meet the demands of an aging and sicker patient population, an influx of advanced technology, care moving into the home and community and the advent of healthcare team configurations. Nurses, as the largest segment of the healthcare workforce, can play a critical role in providing patient care and care coordination across the healthcare continuum. Yet, far too few nurses receive the advanced degrees and additional training to enable them to better respond to these complexities. That’s why the landmark Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (the “IOM report”), calls for academic nurse leaders across all schools of nursing to work together to increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree from 50 percent to 80 percent by 2020. One promising innovation for ensuring that the United States attains this goal is for community colleges to grant 4-year baccalaureate degrees in nursing on their campuses.
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