title: Home care nursing think tank.
abstract: Nurses in academic roles can build bridges between clinical practice, education, research, and policy. Although they work with individual providers in clinical placements, nurses need to take advantage of opportunities to network as a community of academics and providers in addressing current challenges in home care. As agencies close or merge, long-standing placements for students are often a casualty and seldom a priority. Developing creative strategies for collaboration among providers and educators has thus become a growing challenge in home care.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community and Family Nursing, University of Massachusetts-Boston, USA. Linda.dumas@umb.edu
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dumas
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cestari
mesh_terms: D002982:Clinical Clerkship; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education*; D017144:Focus Groups; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement; D008404:Massachusetts; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D000078329:Workforce