Making the Web work for acute care NP education

Creating Quality Online Materials for Specialty Nurse Practitioner Content: Filling a Need for the Graduate Nurse Practitioner

“…Meanwhile, cancer care reaches across all patient populations, which renders the educational preparation of an NP, merely centered on a typical patient population program (i.e., family, adult, acute care, and women’s health), entirely inadequate for the care of the cancer patient and his or her family. Therefore, for ONPs educated in any of these patient population programs, additional education specific to the ONP role is necessary for the provision of safe and appropriate care of the cancer patient—and his or her family—throughout the trajectory of cancer care [5–9]. Currently, orientation models for NPs working in any form of specialty care are non-standardized and vary in format.…”