A profile of the hospital educator.

In summary, on the basis of the study population, today the hospital educator is a master's degree nurse with major responsibility in education and training who works in a centralized department of education and training. She has taken some continuing education but has little formal training in education. She spends most of her time consulting, meeting, keeping records, and providing in-service education. From these results it is anticipated that tomorrow's hospital educator will have a master's degree but will not always be a nurse. He or she will be more and more involved in community health and patient education.