Health policy opinions of graduate students in nursing

Post-graduate students in a School of Nursing whose curriculum represents a broad view of the problems and improvement strategies of contemporary health were surveyed on issues in health policy at the beginning of their study and two years later. They formed one group in a survey of the training programs of 12 health professions; this was part of a project surveying leadership of the major organizations active in health policy-making in the United States. Nursing students moved significantly toward more progressive positions on all categories of issues. At the end of two years of graduate study, student opinions were consistent with the leadership of the nursing profession.