Biomedical subjects

B P Britton

Publications and source records attributed to B P Britton.

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PubMed1998

Is there a doctor in the house? Integrating medical education and home health care.

This article describes how one rural home health agency collaborated with a school of medicine to integrate medical education into the daily operations of the agency. Noteworthy aspects of this project include integration of home care concepts at all levels of the medical school curriculum, use of an advanced practice nurse to coordinate the program, collaboration between the home health agency and the schools of medicine and nursing, and reliance on telecommunication technology to minimize the barriers related to transportation to and scheduling of physician visits.

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From development to evaluation. Making a competency plan work.

Staff development educators face numerous challenges because of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) standards, continuous quality improvement, and economic constraints. For many, the most difficult challenge is complying with the JCAHO requirement for initial and ongoing competency, which must be validated for all nursing personnel. In this article, the authors describe how the educational nurse specialists of a tertiary care, regional referral medical center facilitated the development, implementation, and evaluation of a competency plan to validate initial and ongoing competency for all personnel within Nursing Services.

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