The Institute of Medicine (2011) committee on the future of nursing issued a recommendation for 80% of nurses to have a BSN by 2020. There are many arguments for this recommendation. Review the article: Aiken 2014 (Nurse staffing and education and hospital mortality in nine European countries: a retrospective observational study). This study and other research evidence indicate that a workforce of BSN prepared nurses will have lower patient mortality rates than nurses with less than a BSN education.
QUESTION:
What is the current percentage of BSN-educated RNs in the United States? In your home state? What could be done to increase the percentage of BSN-educated RNs at the federal or state level? Who or what entities could promote change?
