N108: Transition to the Registered Professional Nurse

N108: Transition to the Registered Professional Nurse Role Study Guide universities and colleges, while encouraging recruitment of men and members of minority groups into nursing schools. A social anthropologist from the Russell Sage Foundation, Esther Lucille Brown, authored this report in 1948. Brown’s study attempted to analyze the changing needs of the nursing profession. She noted the slow progress and inadequacies in nursing education, urged the closing of several thousand weak schools, and recommended an official examination of all schools. She advocated the listing of accredited schools and eliminating non-accredited schools. Brown’s report noted that all nursing education should be in the “mainstream of education” and that nurses could be either practical or professional. Brown pointed out that most care given in hospitals was done by student nurses. The suggestion that nurses should have economic security threatened hospital employers and the report disputed the authoritarianism of hospital schools. Mildred Montag used information in Nursing for the Future to justify the proposal of educating a technical nurse. A Program for the Nursing Profession (The Ginzberg Report) This report, also called Eli Ginzberg’s Program for the Nursing Profession, was published in 1948. It outlined the current and prospective nursing shortage from an economic perspective. The Position Paper on Educational Preparation for Nurse Practitioners and Assistants to Nurses This report was prepared by the ANA in 1965 to address concern regarding the educational preparation of nurses. The position paper proposed that: • Those licensed to practice nursing should be educated in higher education institutions. • A baccalaureate degree should be the minimum preparation for entering professional nursing. • An associate’s degree should be the minimum preparation for entering technical nursing practice. • Education for nursing assistants should be in an intensive vocational program. An Abstract for Action (The Lysaught Report) This report looked at current practices and patterns of nursing, suggesting joint practice committees, master planning for nursing education, and funding for nursing education. This report was published in 1970. The committee that prepared it listed three priorities: • Research in both practice and education of nurses should be increased • Increased financial support for nurses and nursing • Educational systems should be enhanced and curriculum based on research Community College Education for Nursing (Mildred Montag) Part one of this report was authored by Mildred Montag in 1959 at Teacher’s College, Columbia University. The goal of the report was to educate a “bedside” nurse, a nursing technician who would work under the supervision of a “professional” nurse. This education would take place in junior colleges rather than hospital diploma schools. Because of this report, seven junior and community

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