RN-to-BS Nursing Education Research: A Scoping Review

Cindy Ringhofer Brown¹, Brenda Elliott, Christine S Gipson+2

• ¹About the Authors Cindy Ringhofer Brown, DNP, RN, PHN, RDN, is associate professor and director, RN-to-BS Program, Department of Nursing, The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota. Brenda Elliott, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, is assistant professor and coordinator of MSN, CAGS, and RN-to-BSN programs, Department of Nursing, Messiah University, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Christine S. Gipson, PhD, RN, CNE, is associate professor and Accredited Provider Program Director, The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas. Jill Holmstrom, EdD, MSN, RN, COS, CNE-cl, is professor and co-chair, School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, Minnesota. Devita Stallings, PhD, RN, FAAN, is associate professor, Trudy Busch Valentine, School of Nursing, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri. The authors acknowledge Michael Skinner, librarian at The University of Texas at Tyler, for his assistance in their literature search. For more information, contact Dr. Brown at cbrown2@css.edu .