Merging PICU and MICU: expanding nurse competencies.
Unit mergers offer an opportunity for nurses to acquire additional skills. A model for unit mergers is presented. The authors describe how didactic and clinical competencies serve as a foundation upon which the nurse develops proficiency and expertise in a new subspecialty.
Clarke
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Coghill
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Dominguez
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Smatlak
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Johnson
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Kozma-Fornaro
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D000328:Adult; D002017:Budgets; D002648:Child; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015274:Interdepartmental Relations; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*