title: A patient resource program--strengthening primary nursing.
abstract: A patient resource program addresses fragmentation of care, duplication and blurred accountability. This centralized referral service uses experts such as clinical nurse specialists, enterostomal therapists and pain management nurses to improve the primary nursing care model.
authors.affiliation: Patient Care Services, Hospital of the Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Hambleton
mesh_terms: D006295:Health Resources; D006801:Humans; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D011321:Primary Nursing; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D013041:Specialties, Nursing