title: A comprehensive critical care course.
abstract: Downsizing and tighter budgets are making it difficult to find cost-effective courses to prepare nurses for specialty area patient care. This is particularly true of small community hospitals, where overhead costs of group classes are high and participant numbers are low. To address this concern, a self-paced, multimedia teaching program with a nontraditional teaching/learning format was developed.
authors.affiliation: Valley Regional Hospital, Claremont, New Hampshire, USA.
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Boyer
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003422:Critical Care; D003479:Curriculum; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006754:Hospital Restructuring; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*