Title
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
Repository Citation
Coburn, C. V.,
Gilland, D.,
Owen, M.,
Amar, A.
(2018).
Ambulatory Care Education: Preparing Nurses for the Future of Healthcare.
Nurse Education Today, 66
79-81.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2018.03.015