Identifying the educational needs of nursing staff: the role of the clinical nurse specialist in perinatal nursing.
One of the priorities of the perinatal clinical nurse specialist is the identification of educational needs. This article describes the experience of 2 perinatal clinical nurse specialists and presents various methods for identifying the educational needs of perinatal nursing staff in the hospital setting.
Santa Rosa Memorial & Petaluma Valley Hospitals, Sonoma County, California, USA. ToniBrownMillhaem@yahoo.com
Toni Brown
TB
Millhaem
Kathleen
K
Timm
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