Collaborative application of the nursing process to staff development challenges. The professional nurse and patient education.
Greater patient acuity and decreased length of stay for episodic care in hospitals increase the complexity of integrating patient education responsibilities into professional nursing practice. This article describes a problem-solving approach paralleling the nursing process developed through a regional, collaborative, experimental, action research approach. The process tool developed through this year-long activity can be applied to a variety of staff development challenges.
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D006801:Humans; D009736:Nursing Process; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010559:Personnel Management / Q000379:methods*; D011340:Problem Solving; D013192:Staff Development / Q000379:methods*