Chapter 15: Building a Highly Skilled Nursing Service
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Dr. Burke describes how he addressed the need for an increasingly skilled staff of oncology nurses.
He talks about partnering with Dr. Barbara Summers [Oral History Interview], Head of Nursing, to create a program to attract young nurses to the field. He explains that oncology nursing is not a “happy area” and has had difficulty attracting students. They also created programs to help nurses develop their skills and expertise with additional training and degree programs.
Dr. Burke gives an overview of changes in nursing that broadened the scope of nursing to management, administration, and advanced practice nursing. He notes that Advanced Practice Nurses have expertise and serve as preceptors to their teams and those under them, increasing the quality of care.
Identifier
BurkeTW_02_20140318_C15
Publication Date
3-18-2014
City
Houston, Texas
Interview Session
Topics Covered
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - Building the Institution; The Administrator; Building/Transforming the Institution; MD Anderson History; Leadership; Discovery and Success; This is MD Anderson; Understanding the Institution; The History of Health Care, Patient Care; Education at MD Anderson; Mentoring; Leadership; On Leadership; MD Anderson Culture; MD Anderson Mission and Values
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Disciplines
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oncology | Oral History
Recommended Citation
Burke, Thomas W. MD and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, "Chapter 15: Building a Highly Skilled Nursing Service" (2014). Interview Chapters. 931.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/931
Conditions Governing Access
Open
