title: Development and implementation of a perinatal education consortium.
abstract: The North Puget Sound Perinatal Education Consortium provides a collaborative framework for planning, implementing, and evaluating a basic orientation program for newly hired and cross-trained perinatal nurses. The program currently provides 9 days of prenatal, labor and delivery, mother-infant couplet, and neonatal didactic orientation at no cost to registrants from participating hospitals. Consortium hospitals supply instruction time and additional services to support this high-quality, regional, perinatal orientation program.
authors.affiliation: University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle 98105-6153, USA.
authors.forename: C W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: O'Brien-Abel
authors.forename: K W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Blanchard
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kearns
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wehmeyer
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000379:methods*; D017283:Neonatal Nursing / Q000193:education*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D016730:Program Development; D011786:Quality Control; D012956:Societies, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014861:Washington