Module 2 Discussion Question
The shift from a baccalaureate degree minimum requirement for nursing program to an associates degree, was considered a major controversy during the late 20th century as it is today. While scrolling through American history, numerous interesting events unfolded. Even though, the associates degree nursing profession was implemented in 1952 while the United States suffered a nursing shortage, it is still a great field of study. Earning an Registered Nurse title in a community college saves a student a lot of money. It was not always like this. After the World War two, the nursing profession lost its significance among the young generation for some time. To promote value to the nursing profession, an idea was made
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There were a lot of opposes. In 1982, The National League for Nursing (NLN) sanctioned a deed, calling it Position Statement on Nursing Roles-Scope and Preparation, in it, stating the baccalaureate degree is the requirement for a professional nursing (American Nurses Association, 2002). Martha Elisabeth Rogers was highly involved in opposing associates nursing degree. She was certain that only baccalaureate degree of education and higher would guarantee enough nursing knowledge, furthermore, Rogers advocated for doctoral degree for all the nursing professors. At the end of her career, she even created a five-year bachelor degree program at one of the Universities which focused on the theory based learning. She always anticipated the demand to separate expertise, methods, and habits of exploiting information given, from the real form of factual data to influence nursing to enhance health in individuals cared for (Smith and Parker, 2015). When looking through Martha Elisabeth’s theories, Science of Unitary Human Beings come to mind. In it, an individual is defined as an energy field combined with an environmental energy, inseparable, with change happening instantaneously. She argued, that a nurse must use her knowledge and non-