Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation

Praise for Educating Nurses "This book represents a call to arms, a call for nursingeducators and programs to step up in our preparation of nurses.This book will incite controversy, wonderful debate, and dialogueamong nurses and others. It is a must-read for every nurse educatorand for every nurse that yearns for nursing to acknowledge andreach for the real difference that nursing can make in safety andquality in health care." ?Beverly Malone, chief executive officer, NationalLeague for Nursing "This book describes specific steps that will enable a newsystem to improve both nursing formation and patient care. Itprovides a timely and essential element to health carereform." ?David C. Leach, former executive director,Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education "The ideas about caregiving developed here make a profoundlyphilosophical and intellectually innovative contribution tomedicine as well as all healing professions, and to anyoneconcerned with ethics. This groundbreaking work is bothparadigm-shifting and delightful to read." ?Jodi Halpern, author, From Detached Concern toEmpathy: Humanizing Medical Practice "This book is a landmark work in professional education! It is amust-read for all practicing and aspiring nurse educators,administrators, policy makers, and, yes, nursing students." ?Christine A. Tanner, senior editor, Journal ofNursing Education "This work has profound implications for nurse executives andfrontline managers." ?Eloise Balasco Cathcart, coordinator, GraduateProgram in Nursing Administration, New York University