Ambulatory Care Education: Preparing Nurses for the Future of Healthcare

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-24-2018

Publication Title

Nurse Education Today

Volume

66

First page number:

79

Last page number:

81

Abstract

In the current healthcare environment, ambulatory care nursing is increasingly recognized as an efficient and effective way of collaborating with clients to improve health outcomes and to focus on prevention. Nursing skills in ambulatory care are both valuable and necessary. However, few undergraduate nursing programs provide content on ambulatory care or significant clinical experience outside the context of an acute care setting. To meet this gap in education, a baccalaureate undergraduate course in ambulatory care nursing was created to address the growing need for RNs in this field. In collaboration with affiliated healthcare systems, this course provides the knowledge and skills needed to enable new RNs to enter this challenging and rapidly changing specialty.

Keywords

Ambulatory care nursing; Baccalaureate nursing education; Education curriculum; Primary care nursing

Disciplines

Nursing

Language

English

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