title: Critical care nursing orientation in the rural community hospital.
abstract: Hospitals of all sizes should provide an orientation for their newly hired critical care nurses-but when the hospital is a rural community facility, resources for such programs may be in especially short supply. In this article, we describe how our hospital overcame staffing and funding shortages to create a successful, collaborative orientation program for its critical care nurses.
authors.affiliation: Lewistown Hospital, Lewistown, PA, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Squires
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: McGinnis
mesh_terms: D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D003422:Critical Care; D006780:Hospitals, Rural; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D011231:Preceptorship; D016730:Program Development; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce