Claire Thurgate and Sue Holmes explain how a trust and a university have devised bespoke training to help nurses deliver safe, effective care to patients with complex conditions
Emergency healthcare provision is changing, and services need to respond to evolving health economies while providing safe, effective, patient-centred care. Ambulatory care is developing to meet these needs, but workforce planners need to ensure that staff are fit for purpose. To address this, one trust, in partnership with a local university, designed a bespoke in-house, work-based learning package on ambulatory care, which was delivered to registered nurses by practice experts. This article describes the project and discusses the evaluation, which highlighted the benefits of this way of learning for the nurses, the trust and the university, and identified some areas that require development.
Nursing Management. 22, 7, 28-31. doi: 10.7748/nm.22.7.28.s27
Correspondenceclaire.thurgate@canterbury.ac.uk
Peer reviewThis article has been subject to double-blind review and has been checked using antiplagiarism software
Conflict of interestNone declared
Received: 12 August 2014
Accepted: 22 September 2015
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