| The Goldmark Report in 1923 was the first to | | | | a diploma program like the one they used to offer at |
| recommend that the entry level of education for | | | | Cook County Hospital in Chicago. Those nurses had |
| professional practice as a registered nurse should be | | | | so much training and hands on care experience by |
| a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree (BSN), and | | | | the time they graduated that few physicians could |
| heated debate has raged among nurses over the | | | | hold a candle to them on their best day. |
| issue ever since. | | | | This isn't about whether BSN nurses are better than |
| Diploma and Associate Degree RN's will clearly tell you | | | | ADN or Diploma nurses |
| that they can run rings around BSN program | | | | Up until a few years ago I would have been just as |
| graduates when it comes to patient care. They'll | | | | emotional as the next nurse in arguing against the |
| explain that they have more actual clinical experience | | | | very idea of making the BSN degree the minimum |
| and patient care know how in their little finger than a | | | | educational level to practice as a professional nurse. |
| new BSN grad, and 99% of the time they're right | | | | The arguments were many and seemed to make |
| about that! I'll be the first to admit that if I get | | | | sense |
| seriously ill I'm hoping that my nurse graduated from | | | | |