Advanced nurse practitioners play a vital role in delivering high-quality care to patients attending the acute medical unit and must be highly skilled and competent. In the absence of national ...

Irene Anderson, BSc (Hons), DPSN, RN. Senior Lecturer, Tissue Viability, Department of Post Registration Nursing, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield In tissue viability or, indeed, in any ...

Hospitals with ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP) designation are always seeking better ways to educate their nurses to ensure quality outcomes. For many facilities, part of this education process ...

In this article, we argue in favor of a promising paradigm for training physicians: competency-based medical education (CBME). 10 CBME takes an outcomes-based approach in training learners to become ...

Leaders of the medical profession have realized over the past 15 years that traditional physician training models were not likely to meet a population and health care system’s needs (Frenk et al., ...