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Article: Exploring nursing education in The People's Republic of China, Japan and Turkey.(GUEST EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
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- Contemporary Nurse
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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ABSTRACT
The global nursing shortage has caused competition and cooperation between countries desperate for registered nurses (RNs), and has led to an increase in migration and international recruitment of nurses. Some nursing diplomas or degrees earned in one country may not be transferable to another. As a result, there is growing interest in common standards and competencies of entry-level nurses to guide future registered nurse agreements between countries or multi-country licensure programs.
An exploratory study was conducted to investigate how entry-level nurses are educated throughout the world. The researchers sent a nursing education ...