Standard Competencies in Ambulatory Care: An Urgent Need.

The ambulatory setting presents unique challenges for leadership and staff transitioning from other care areas, such as the inpatient environment. Nurses and support staff newly entering the world of ambulatory care may experience challenges acclimating to their new roles as they shift from an environment that provides focused care to achieve a safe discharge to one that focuses on holistic prevention and treatment over long periods. Inpatient hospital care relies on many protocols, orders, and guidelines and a multidisciplinary team of physicians, pharmacists, dieticians, and rehabilitation support to progress the patient through their illness or injury during their hospital admission.

Identifying the Underlying Educational Needs That Contribute to the Professional Practice Gap.

This article addresses how nursing professional development practitioners and nurse planners can meet the educational design process criterion 2 in the American Nurses Credentialing Center Primary Accreditation process that also corresponds with the Association for Nursing Professional Development's Scope and Standards of Practice. J Contin Educ Nurs. 2018;49(2):52-54.

Interprofessional Continuing Education in the Ambulatory Care Setting.

Ambulatory care is a rapidly growing specialty practice area. This article describes how interprofessional continuing education can serve as a platform to support this growth and how the nursing professional development practitioner can use their skills to lead the way. J Contin Educ Nurs.

Empowering Patients, Engaging Teams: An Interprofessional Continuing Education Pilot.

Health care is moving from reactive, disease-focused systems to proactive, patient-centered systems focused on the health continuum. This shift requires ongoing education on the part of the health care team to ensure care competence and the ability to meet patients where their needs exist. To maximize outcomes, interprofessional continuing education is necessary to support interprofessional collaboration.