Chapter 22: The Growth of Graduate Education in Nursing in Canada - Nurselytic

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: The Canadian Nurses Association Committee on Nursing Education made four recommendations at its 32nd Biennial Convention in 1962: (1) doctoral level education should be expanded, (2) school directors should be prepared at the master's level, (3) teachers of nursing should be prepared at the baccalaureate level, and (4) programs should be developed at the master's and doctoral levels.

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: The majority of funding for the early graduate nursing programs came from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: The first graduate programs offering study in clinical content areas were developed, beginning with the program at l'Universit?© de Montr?©al, in 1966.

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Greater variety in programming is cited as a reason that Canadian nurses were travelling to the United States for graduate study instead of enrolling in the new Canadian graduate nursing programs during the 1960s.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Athabasca University in Alberta was one of the first to offer a nurse practitioner diploma option in 1990, called an advanced graduate diploma.