Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 3 , Pages 233-238, April 2010

Future challenges for nursing education – A European perspective

  • Leena Salminen

      Affiliations

    • University of Turku, Department of Nursing Science, 20014 University of Turku, Turku, Finland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +358 2 3338576.
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  • Minna Stolt

      Affiliations

    • University of Turku, Department of Nursing Science, 20014 University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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  • Mikko Saarikoski

      Affiliations

    • Turku University of Applied Sciences, Turku, Finland
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  • Arja Suikkala

      Affiliations

    • Diakonia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland
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  • Heli Vaartio

      Affiliations

    • Novia University of Applied Sciences, Turku, Finland
  • ,
  • Helena Leino-Kilpi

      Affiliations

    • University of Turku, Department of Nursing Science, 20014 University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Accepted 11 November 2009. published online 14 December 2009.

Summary 

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.

Keywords: Nurse education, Future, Europe

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PII: S0260-6917(09)00216-0

doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2009.11.004

Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 3 , Pages 233-238, April 2010