Fulfilling regional needs for specialty nurses through limited-cohort graduate education

Authors
Block, DE Josten, LE Lia-Hoagberg, B Bearinger, LH Kerr, MJ Smith, MJ Lewis, ML Hutton, SJ
Citation
De. Block et al., Fulfilling regional needs for specialty nurses through limited-cohort graduate education, NURS OUTL, 47(1), 1999, pp. 23-29
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Public Health & Health Care Science
Journal title
NURSING OUTLOOK
ISSN journal
00296554 → ACNP
Volume
47
Issue
1
Year of publication
1999
Pages
23 - 29
Database
ISI
SICI code
0029-6554(199901/02)47:1<23:FRNFSN>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
The University of Minnesota has developed a limited-cohort distance educati on graduate program to overcome geographic barriers and address the shortag e of master's-prepared specialty nurses in rural areas of the upper Midwest . Such a program offers graduate nursing education in various specialty are as to distance sites for a predetermined, relatively short period.