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Nurses Are What Nurses Do—Are You Where You Want to Be?
Author(s) -
Domino Elizabeth
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/s0001-2092(06)60071-9
Subject(s) - nursing , adaptation (eye) , knowledge base , psychology , nurse educator , nurse education , medicine , medical education , neuroscience , world wide web , computer science
• NURSING PERFORMANCE, or the skills a nurse exhibits in practice, is limited by the extent or level of a nurse's knowledge base; hence, the expression “nurses are what nurses do” probes nurses' levels of satisfaction with their present educational status. • GIVEN THE RAPID CHANGES in health care today, nurses are questioning their level of commitment to lifelong learning in meeting ever‐changing demands. • THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES MEASURES being taken to assess the adequacy of nurses' knowledge base in a field that requires continuous adaptation to change. AORN J 81 (January 2005) 187–201.