… Angela Barron McBride, PhD, RN, FAAN This article reviews changes in nursing education
in the last quarter century, notes some trends currently shaping health care delivery and
academia, and discusses some issues likely to grow in importance in the next quarter century.
… Ingrained attitudes toward the relationship between undergraduate and graduate education
will have to be reexamined, because nurses historically have been encouraged to stop and
practice after every academic degree before moving forward. BSN-to-PhD tracks are already …