TY - JOUR
T1 - Postgraduate Fellowship Education and Training for Nurses
T2 - The NET SMART Experience
AU - Wojner Alexandrov, Anne W.
AU - Brethour, Mary
AU - Cudlip, Fern
AU - Swatzell, Victoria
AU - Biby, Sharon
AU - Reiner, Dana
AU - Kiernan, Terri Ellen
AU - Handler, Diane
AU - Tocco, Susan
AU - Yang, Joanna
N1 - Funding Information:
In the late 1990s to early 2000s, James Grotta, MD, Professor, Chairman of Neurology, and Director of the University of Texas-Houston Stroke Team, became the first US physician to recognize the value of postgraduate neurovascular fellowship education/training for APNs, providing individualized training while significantly expanding the roles and responsibilities of three nurses (Anne Alexandrov, Robin Saiki, and Dawn Meyer). Grotta's efforts resulted in a high rate of diagnostic agreement between neurologists and APN fellows, safe tPA treatment delivery, and provision of sound hemodynamic management and secondary prevention. From this experience, Alexandrov later conducted needs assessments targeting APNs, physicians, and hospital administrators to determine their interest in a standardized, evidence-based, neurovascular, postgraduate APN fellowship and their willingness to expand the role of appropriately educated/trained APNs to include the acute diagnosis and management of stroke. Findings indicated significant interest in this expanded role, coupled with the need for flexible access to learning materials to ensure availability and feasibility of the program. These data, coupled with Health Resources and Services Administration funding, supported the genesis of the NET SMART APN fellowship program, which to date has enrolled more than 70 neurovascular APN fellows.
PY - 2009/12
Y1 - 2009/12
N2 - The Neurovascular Education and Training in Stroke Management and Acute Reperfusion Therapy (NET SMART) program for advanced practice nursing (APN) offers a first-of-its-kind, academic, postgraduate, fellowship program for APNs that is modeled after physician academic fellowship programs but supported by a flexible Internet-based platform. This article details the rationale, methods, and preliminary results of the NET SMART APN experience, which serves as a unique template for the development of academic postgraduate nursing fellowship programs across a variety of specialty practices.
AB - The Neurovascular Education and Training in Stroke Management and Acute Reperfusion Therapy (NET SMART) program for advanced practice nursing (APN) offers a first-of-its-kind, academic, postgraduate, fellowship program for APNs that is modeled after physician academic fellowship programs but supported by a flexible Internet-based platform. This article details the rationale, methods, and preliminary results of the NET SMART APN experience, which serves as a unique template for the development of academic postgraduate nursing fellowship programs across a variety of specialty practices.
KW - Advanced practice nursing
KW - NET SMART
KW - Neurovascular advanced practice
KW - Post-graduate nurse fellowship programs
KW - Stroke
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70649110073&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ccell.2009.09.001
DO - 10.1016/j.ccell.2009.09.001
M3 - Review article
C2 - 19951762
AN - SCOPUS:70649110073
SN - 0899-5885
VL - 21
SP - 435
EP - 449
JO - Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America
JF - Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America
IS - 4
ER -