Postgraduate fellowship education and training for nurses: the NET SMART experience.
The Neurovascular Education and Training in Stroke Management and Acute Reperfusion Therapy (NET SMART) program for advanced practice nursing (APN) offers a first-of-its-kind, academic, postgraduate, fellowship program for APNs that is modeled after physician academic fellowship programs but supported by a flexible Internet-based platform. This article details the rationale, methods, and preliminary results of the NET SMART APN experience, which serves as a unique template for the development of academic postgraduate nursing fellowship programs across a variety of specialty practices.
Alexandrov
Anne W Wojner
AW
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Comprehensive Stroke Center, 1813 6th Avenue South, UAB Hospital Russell Wing, Suite 226, Birmingham, AL 35249, USA. annealex@uab.edu
Brethour
Mary
M
Cudlip
Fern
F
Swatzell
Victoria
V
Biby
Sharon
S
Reiner
Dana
D
Kiernan
Terri-Ellen
TE
Handler
Diane
D
Tocco
Susan
S
Yang
Joanna
J
D000208:Acute Disease; D057179:Advanced Practice Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration; D002568:Certification; D003422:Critical Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D003479:Curriculum; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D017145:Models, Educational; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D015424:Reperfusion / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing; D020521:Stroke / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*