title: A nursing update course. Service and education collaborate.
abstract: This article describes the planning, development, implementation and evaluation of a nursing update course. It identifies collaboration between a hospital and college as the key element in the program's success. Evaluation showed the program was effective in recruiting and educating students; it helped alleviate a local nursing shortage and brought nursing practice and education together, and 87% of the course participants either returned to practice or entered formal education programs to continue their professional development.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Seavor
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gagne
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ryder
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D003479:Curriculum; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D004518:Education, Professional, Retraining / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D014495:Universities