Impact of Master's of Science on Nursing

According to Rosseter, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing is creating a curriculum for master's level nurses in order for them to be more effective teachers. This curriculum is referred to as the Master's Essentials includes classes on "sciences and humanities, organizational and systems leadership, quality improvement and safety, translating and integrating scholarship into practice, informatics and healthcare technologies, health policy and advocacy, interprofessional collaboration for improving outcomes, clinical prevention and population Health" (Rosseter, 2011).

According to Blanche, nurses today are performing tasks that were once only performed by doctors. Nurses are also becoming more specialized in their career such as organ transplant nurse, ICU nurse, the psychiatric nurse. Nurses are more of an advocate for patients rather than simply caretakers. Many hospitals offer employee tuition assistance to encourage their nurses to return to school to get their master's or BSN (Blanche, 2010).

In conclusion, because nursing graduate programs are creating higher standards of education for their programs, nurses are becoming more educated than ever before. Nurses, who plan to teach nursing, must become well developed in their studies which they pass onto their students. Nurses are given more opportunities to return to school to get their master's degree which helps raise the level of education of today's nurse.

References

Rosster, R. (2011). U.S. nursing schools transform master’s education by adopting new standards reflecting contemporary nursing practice. Retrieved from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/media/newsreleases/2011/essentials.html

Blanche, J. (2010, November 2). Nursing 50 years back and today: how the nursing field has changed over the last 50 years. Retrieved from http://www.healthecareers.com/article/nursing-50-years-back-and-today-how-the-nursing-field-has-changed