Educators, Employees, and New Graduates Define Essential Skills for Baccalaureate Graduates

This article describes an extended study that was first reported in the October 1980 issue of The Journal of Nursing Administration. There the authors compared the attitudes of faculty and nursing service personnel in rating the importance of a number of psychomotor skills. This article takes the study a step further and also documents the responses of recent baccalaureate graduates in rating the relative importance of the same list of skills. The authors' conclusions point to some discrepancies among the expectations of the three groups studied. Their discussion encourages continued collaboration between nursing administrators and nursing educators in determining expectations for clinical preparation of nursing students.