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In the article, “Past, Present, And Future Trends of Masters Education in Nursing”,

Gerard et al (2014) asserts that Master’s programs need to be revised in interprofessional

education of all nursing institutions so as to give students the needed expertise in the changing

healthcare environment. The main message passed by the article is that, Masters programs have

become questionable in equipping the students pursuing advanced nursing practice in the context

of evaluating past, present and the future trends of health care (Gerard et al, 2014). The criteria

of evaluating this article was based on accuracy to see the validity of the arguments. The author

denotes that, due to the tenuous position of Master’s program nurses who will be pursuing career

in advanced practice will do so in doctorial levels or the so-called new model in Master’s nursing

education (Gerard et al, 2014). With the detailed arguments provided by the article it is easy to

agree with what the articles says.

The article has done well to use various aspects, for instance, technology to explain why

Master’s nursing programs lacks the ability to connect between the past, present and the future of

advance nursing practice. Besides this, there exist some bias more so on a research is based only

in private universities while we have advanced nursing education offered in public universities

but cannot make one to deny the arguments in this article. The best part of this article is that, it

evaluates the history of the Master’s programs in Nursing, the past and current demands in health

care and other important aspects like technology, accountability, team approach and the future of

Master’s nursing program (Gerard et al, 2014). With all the aspects the author explains why

Master’s education is questionable in meeting the needs of health care institutions, consumers

and even students. The past, present and the future trends are well connected making it easy to

know why Master’s program does not have the ability the link up the past, current and the future

of advanced nurse practice. The authors’ message has a huge application to the real world as
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health care programs are issues which not only impacts the students but the whole world. The

historical part of Master’s in Nursing education serves is huge purpose of connecting the

evolution of technology and new knowledge in improving patient care.

The topic chosen by the Gerard et al (2014) is also interesting and everything it depicts

have been thoroughly discussed and connected. As the topic of the article touches on the aspects

of past, present and the future of Master’s nursing program, the authors denotes that to build the

present and have a prospect of the future it is good to look at the past so as to build a model

which gives master’s nursing education hope in offering advanced nursing practice. As the

authors researchers major only in private universities, there is bias since the sample does not

involve public universities programs who also need space in serving health care institutions and

customers. The introduction and conclusion parts of the article have acted as the corresponding

and convincing elements of the article, more so the conclusion has well indicated why there has

been a great need to create a new system of Master’s in nursing education so as to withstand the

pressure of the changing health care field. The good thing is the research in this article is that it is

well equipped with enough research data, in the future research on a similar article it is good to

use the new model in master’s nursing education more in connecting with past, present and

future aspects in health care environment.

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References

Gerard, S. O., Kazer, M. W., Babington, L., & Quell, T. T. (2014). Past, present, and future

trends of master's education in nursing. Journal of Professional Nursing, 30(4), 326-332.