Printer-friendly versionSETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON THE CARNEGIE NURSING STUDY
The Carnegie nursing study team, Patricia Benner, Molly Sutphen, Lisa Day and Victoria Leonard, write in the Community College Times: As often happens with media coverage, the media overstated the intent and content of the Carnegie National Study of Nursing Education, creating more heat than light. We hope to clarify and shed light on the intent and major findings of the recently released report published under the title Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation. Seven years ago, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching launched a series of studies of professional education designed to examine the professions from the view of civic professionalism rather than technical professionalism. The five professions studied were clergy, engineering, law, medicine and nursing.
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