Ways of developing educational programs that might open the door to BSN program applicants.

这项研究的目的是探讨如何为没有学士学位的护士开发获得BSN(护理学学士)的课程。本研究以日本13个城市的481家医院和570所职业护理学校为研究对象，向这些机构的工作人员发放了1290份自填式问卷。获得学士学位的医院和职业护理学校工作人员的标准教育路径如下：高中、3年职业护理学校大专(护理以外的专业：86%)。大学函授课程被发现是一种特别受欢迎的获得学士学位的方式。然而，从正规课程获得学士学位的人数最近一直在增加。自1985年以来，上大学获得学士学位的护士比例一直在上升，自1995年以来，40岁以上的申请者数量显著增加。完成学士课程的平均年限为5.9年。一半的受试者回答说，如果条件允许，他们会选择BSN项目，因为它的教育水平。然而，他们中的许多人指出，学习期间是否需要继续工作和地理位置等条件是问题。许多人在考虑上大学时希望能够继续他们的社区生活和工作，但有一半的人因此放弃了参加BSN项目。提供BSN项目的高校需要开发各种学分转移系统，以改善目前的状况。如果转学学生需要不同于基础护理教育的项目，则需要对项目的内容、组织和教职员工数量进行重组。

The purpose of this study was to investigate ways of developing programs for nurses who do not have a bachelor degree to obtain a BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing). Four hundred and eighty one hospitals in 13 ordinance-designed cities and 570 all occupational nursing schools in Japan were participated in this study, and 1290 self-reporting questionnaires were obtained from workers in these facilities. The standard educational path for both hospital and occupational nursing school workers who had earned a bachelor degree was as follows : High school 3 years occupational nursing school College (with a major other than nursing : 86%). A college correspondence course was found to be a particularly popular way of earning a bachelor degree. However, the number of people who have earned a bachelor degree from a regular course has been increasing recently. The ratio of nurses who go to colleges to earn the bachelor has been increasing since 1985, and the number of applicants over 40 years old has increased remarkabiy since 1995. The average number of years to complete a bachelor program was 5.9.Half of the subjects answered that they would have chosen a BSN program because of its educational level if conditions would have allowed it. However, many of them pointed out that conditions such as necessity of continuing a job while studying and geographical situation were problems. A large number of people expected to be able to continue their community life and job when they considered of going to college, but half of them gave up with going to BSN program for this reason. Colleges and universities that offer a BSN program need to develop various credit transferring systems in order to improve current conditions. If programs different from basic nursing education are needed for transferred students, the content of the program, the organization, and the number of faculty members need to be restructured.