Does the Baccalaureate Make a Difference?: Differentiating Nurse Performance by Education and Experience
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TL;DR
Nurses with a baccalaureate degree demonstrated more nursing competencies when compared with their associate degree or diploma colleagues, and results suggest that education promotes a broader range of abilities than does experience.
Abstract
The nursing profession continues to debate the question of whether level of education matters in performance once the nurse is oriented to a particular setting, or whether the assumed advantages of baccalaureate education can be substituted by on-the-job experience. In this study, nurses with a baccalaureate degree demonstrated more nursing competencies when compared with their associate degree or diploma colleagues. Results also suggest that education promotes a broader range of abilities than does experience.