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Policy Analysis: BSN in 10
Abstract
Joeanne Maljevac and Shannon Olivieri
An on-going cry for decades from nurse leaders is a standardization of entry level education for Registered Nurses (RNs). The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report in 2010 spurred the requirement for an increased pool of bachelor’s prepared RNs by the year 2020 [1]. In a partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the call was made by the IOM to augment the percentage of RNs with a baccalaureate degree to 80% [1, 2]. To align with the IOM recommendation, many states are in the process of developing “BSN in 10” legislation, however, New York State (NYS) was the first state to put this into law as Senate Bill S6768 [3].