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An Epidemiological Approach to the Diffusion of Innovations: The Spread of Associate Degree Nursing Programs Among U.S. Junior Colleges
Geis, Mary J.
Geis, Mary J.
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This study involves an examination of factors influencing the spread of an innovative program in nursing education among junior colleges in the United States. Since the 1870s nursing education programs have been associated with or controlled by one of three types of organizations: hospitals, four year colleges or universities, and community or junior colleges. Although Florence Nightingale's prescription for nurse training advocated the founding of independent, autonomous nursing schools (Watson, 1977), programs in the U.S. were rarely established on this basis. Those that were soon capitulated to economic and other pressures and were assimilated under hospital control (Brown, 1936; Flanagan, 1976). Thus nursing education programs are usually departments, divisions, or some other structural element of an encompassing or parent organization.
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Ph.D. University of Kansas, Sociology 1985
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1984-12-12
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