title: Leveraging Resources to Improve Clinical Outcomes and Teach Transitional Care Through Development of Academic-Clinical Partnerships.
abstract: Nurse educators need to provide students with clinical experiences that prepare them for our rapidly changing health care environments. This article describes how nurse educators used academic and clinical resources to develop a partnership between a school of nursing and clinical entity to facilitate successful transitions from hospital to home for adult heart failure and pediatric asthma patients.
authors.affiliation: Author Affiliations: Instructors, School of Nursing (Dr Smith and Ms McClure), and Associate Professor, Schools of Nursing and Medicine (Pediatrics) (Dr Lutenbacher), Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
authors.forename: K Melissa
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lutenbacher
authors.forename: Natasha
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: McClure
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001249:Asthma / Q000451:nursing*; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D000069341:Transitional Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016896:Treatment Outcome