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Advanced Nursing Degrees to Accelerate Career Growth

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

In 2011, the Institute of Medicine released the landmark report “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,” calling for doubling the number of U.S. nurses who have doctoral degrees by 2020. 1 The report, which is still influential today, argues that higher levels of nursing education lead to improved patient care.