{"title":"A staff development program for pediatric oncology nurses in the hospital setting.","authors":"G Almquist","doi":"10.1177/104345428700400117","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The goal of staff development is to maintain and upgrade the skills of nurses in order to provide quality patient care and enhance professional development. Rapidly changing technology, increasing patient acuity, accreditation requirements, cost containment, flextime work schedules and turnover of nursing personnel are all issues which impact any staff development program. This paper described a staff development program for nurses working in both acute and ambulatory pediatric units at a comprehensive cancer center. A Pediatric Educational Committee has","PeriodicalId":77742,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses","volume":"4 1-2","pages":"43-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/104345428700400117","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/104345428700400117","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The goal of staff development is to maintain and upgrade the skills of nurses in order to provide quality patient care and enhance professional development. Rapidly changing technology, increasing patient acuity, accreditation requirements, cost containment, flextime work schedules and turnover of nursing personnel are all issues which impact any staff development program. This paper described a staff development program for nurses working in both acute and ambulatory pediatric units at a comprehensive cancer center. A Pediatric Educational Committee has