title: Thinking outside the exam room: accessing community resources for patients in ambulatory care settings.
abstract: Patients and families receiving care in the ambulatory care setting have increasingly complex needs, requiring nurses to employ a large variety of resources. Parents of pediatric patients have identified services available through community resources as a high priority, although medical personnel do not tend to appreciate the value of these services. Learning about the services offered by community agencies requires some investment of nursing time, but may result in improved effectiveness of nursing care across an institution or network of ambulatory care nurses.
authors.affiliation: Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Family Health Center, Neptune, NJ, USA.
authors.forename: Patti
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lucarelli
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003151:Community Health Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005192:Family Health; D006295:Health Resources / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D020380:Needs Assessment / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009515:New Jersey; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000458:organization & administration; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration