Guest Editorial -Nurse Education and Infection Control

Abstract

There has rarely been a time, since the late 1960s, when nursing and nurse education have not been in the process of change. First the management of nursing was flattened and the lines of accountability made more visible and there have since been many variations on this theme. In nurse education there was a move away from the schools of nursing based in teaching hospitals through the formation of colleges of nursing in the 1980s. Then, the most radical change in nurse education, the wholesale move into the higher education sector in the 1990s with the advent of Project 2000 (UKCC 1987).