TY - JOUR
T1 - Preparing new nurse graduates for practice in multiple settings
T2 - A community-based academic-practice partnership model
AU - West, Nikki
AU - Berman, Audrey
AU - Karshmer, Judith
AU - Prion, Susan
AU - Van, Paulina
AU - Wallace, Jonalyn
PY - 2014/6
Y1 - 2014/6
N2 - Responding to local and national concerns about the nursing workforce, the California Institute for Nursing and Health Care worked with private and public funders and community health care partners to establish community-based transition-to-practice programs for new RN graduates unable to secure nursing positions in the San Francisco Bay Area. The goals were to retain new RN raduates in nursing and further develop their skills and competencies to increase their employability. Leaders from academic and inpatient, ambulatory, and community-based practice settings, as well as additional community partners, collaboratively provided four 12-to 16-week pilot transition programs in 2010-2011. A total of 345 unemployed new nurse graduates enrolled. Eightyfour percent of 188 respondents to a post-program survey were employed in inpatient and community settings 3 months after completion. Participants and clinical preceptors also reported increases in confi dence and competence.
AB - Responding to local and national concerns about the nursing workforce, the California Institute for Nursing and Health Care worked with private and public funders and community health care partners to establish community-based transition-to-practice programs for new RN graduates unable to secure nursing positions in the San Francisco Bay Area. The goals were to retain new RN raduates in nursing and further develop their skills and competencies to increase their employability. Leaders from academic and inpatient, ambulatory, and community-based practice settings, as well as additional community partners, collaboratively provided four 12-to 16-week pilot transition programs in 2010-2011. A total of 345 unemployed new nurse graduates enrolled. Eightyfour percent of 188 respondents to a post-program survey were employed in inpatient and community settings 3 months after completion. Participants and clinical preceptors also reported increases in confi dence and competence.
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U2 - 10.3928/00220124-20140417-03
DO - 10.3928/00220124-20140417-03
M3 - Article
C2 - 24779715
AN - SCOPUS:84902087095
SN - 0022-0124
VL - 45
SP - 252
EP - 256
JO - Journal of continuing education in nursing
JF - Journal of continuing education in nursing
IS - 6
ER -