title: Patient-centered care: a nursing priority.
abstract: Patient-centered care (PCC) is increasingly being accepted as fundamental to quality and patient safety. Nurse educators must embrace PCC as a competency critical to positive patient outcomes and champion its inclusion in nursing curricula nationally. This column offers some strategies for teaching PCC in pre-licensure nursing programs.
authors.affiliation: State University of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA. lynette.hinds@downstate.edu
authors.forename: Lynette E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Hinds
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States