Future challenges for nursing education - A European perspective
: Salminen L, Stolt M, Saarikoski M, Suikkala A, Vaartio H, Leino-Kilpi H
Publisher: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
: 2010
: Nurse Education Today
: NURSE EDUCATION TODAY
: NURS EDUC TODAY
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: 0260-6917
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2009.11.004
In Europe, there have been reforms in nursing education during last years and many political papers have been published. The reforms have given need for harmonising nursing education. In spite of that, there are differences in nursing education system in Europe. In this paper, we describe some main policy papers in the field of nursing education and identify selected future challenges. These challenges have been named for developing cross-cultural collaboration, clinical learning environment, role of patients and teacher education. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.