title: Lifelong learning for nurses-building a strong future.
abstract: Lifelong learning is a key issue for the nursing profession. The literature reports effective collaboration between nurses and health sciences librarians to develop evidence-based programs for hospital staff nurses. In this collaboration the nurse provides the real-time practice issues and the health sciences librarian provides the expertise to retrieve the information from the literature. This column presents a current overview of the participation of health sciences librarians, particularly hospital librarians, in the development of programs and resources for nurses' lifelong learning.
authors.affiliation: a San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science , San Jose , California , USA.
authors.forename: Cheryl R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Dee
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Reynolds
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D055318:Evidence-Based Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D016245:Librarians; D007993:Libraries, Medical; D008490:Medical Informatics