Development and implementation of a perinatal education consortium.
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.
Nelson
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CW
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle 98105-6153, USA.
Edwards
J
J
O'Brien-Abel
N
N
Blanchard
K W
KW
Kearns
S
S
Wehmeyer
J
J
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