1964

Passage of Nurse Training Act authorizing construction grants for new schools of nursing, grants and loans to students, but it “sustained long-standing ambivalence about higher education for nurses” by supporting three different levels of training: college (B.A.) programs; hospital training programs, and community college programs (Lynaugh, 19-20). By 1970, there were 700,00 RNs vs 550,000 in 1964 and the number of nurses with bachelor’s degrees increased by 84% (21).