Blog spotlight: Should all new nurses be required to obtain baccalaureate degrees?
Nurse Leader Weekly, August 22, 2011
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New nurses need to have four-year degrees, according to the readers of www.StrategiesForNurseManagers.com.
We've been asking readers whether baccalaureate degrees should be required before new nurses can enter into practice. By a slight margin, the majority say yes. Forty-three percent say the profession of nursing needs a more highly educated workforce.
Forty-one percent don't think it necessary for nurses to enter practice with a baccalaureate degree, but say nurses should be required to obtain one within a few years of entering practice.
Just 15% say associate degrees are sufficient and only 1% have no opinion.
What do you think?
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