A cross-cultural tool to identify continuing education needs.

Cost-controlled health reforms have created the need for training nurses to provide evidence-based care in new contexts. Planing for nurses' continuing education must thus target the appropriate personnel and simultaneously consider local healthcare needs and training requirements. To plan such educational programmes, a training needs analysis instrument was developed in the UK and used to compare the training needs of nurses in Australia, the USA and the UK. Below, the findings of this survey.