Topics

• American Nurses Association
• The Carnegie Reports
• The IOM
• BSN in Ten
• References

NURS 410 - Health Care Delivery Systems & Informatics

Module 3: Major Reports Influencing the Healthcare Delivery System

The Carnegie Reports

Considering the call by the ANA in 1965 further work, research, and studies have lead to calls for change.

Benner, Sutphen, Leonard, & Day (2009) jointly authored the Carnegie Report titled, Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation, taking the next step to identify what nurse educators and academic institutes needed to do to enhance the methods by which they educate nursing students. To become competent care providers, leaders, and agents of change, the educational process must also be reformed. Key findings from the Carnegie Report noted:

• Major practice – education gap exists,
• Radical separation of classroom and clinical teaching exists and,
• Faculty development is needed for classroom teaching.

Additionally, Benner et. al., in the Carnegie Report advocated for increasing use of models, or what some identify as standardized patient use, to help prepare for clinical experiences in clinical courses.

Following the report, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) (2009), composed of the state boards of nursing (BONs) representing every jurisdiction in the U. S., met to discuss how the nursing community could transform education for the next generation of nurses (Spector & Odom, 2012, p. 1).