Nurse educators' knowledge of primary health care. Implications for community-based education, practice, and research

Successful change of the health care system in the United States is linked to successful change in the education of health care professionals. Clearly, a cadre of health care professionals educated for a system that focuses on acute illness and hospital-based technology interventions would not perform well in a health care system that focuses on community-based primary health care. If the discipline of nursing is to continue its major role in the delivery of health care, it must ensure that nurse educators are prepared to revise nursing curricula and teaching strategies in terms of community-based primary health care knowledge and skills.