What a Long Strange Trip It Has Been: Using the Nursing Professional Development Practice Model to Guide the Transformation of an Education Department.

Abstract

The Nursing Professional Development Practice Model is accepted as the foundation and scope for nursing professional development practice; but what happens when the clinical education department is not utilizing the practice model? This article will discuss how a five-hospital system transformed its education department from a decentralized, unit-based structure into a centralized professional development department using the practice model as a guide.