A summarization of the evidence on the associations between nurse education and experience and the occurrence of mortality and adverse events in acute care hospitals, and benefits to patients and organizations of the recent Institute of Medicine’s recommendation that 80% of registered nurses should be educated at the baccalaureate degree by 2020. Overall, higher levels of education were associated with lower risks of failure to rescue and mortality in 75% and 61.1% of the reviewed studies pertaining to these adverse events, respectively.
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