title: The culture broker in post-RN education: a view from a distance.
abstract: Education is becoming decentralized. The paradigm shift requires us to rethink the ways educational values are delivered. As Connick asserts, education has become a process rather than a place on a campus. In the distance education site at Gallup, N.M., we realized that the context is organized around a new set of relationships. Reality, interpreted in another context, has a culture of its own. Even where facts are known there is often confusion about their meaning. The site coordinator is a valuable force in the aligning and managing of meaning between contexts.
authors.affiliation: University of New Mexico College of Nursing, Albuquerque, USA.
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authors.lastname: Shomaker
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D004493:Education; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D006801:Humans; D009516:New Mexico; D012424:Rural Population; D012944:Social Support