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Article Review and Discussion: Determining Best Fit for Newly Licensed Nurses

Relias

Newly licensed nurses transitioning into clinical practice can experience stress, uncertainty, and lack of confidence. Reduce burden off preceptors. Healthcare leaders are pressed to ensure newly licensed nurses are set up for success in their transition into a new role — ideally, as safe and as early as possible. Highlights.

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The Exec: How Phoenix Children's is Better Preparing Nursing Students to Work in Pediatrics

Health Leaders | Nursing

They already have built up their competencies as well as their confidence, which is key for newly licensed nurses, so they've already got that fundamentally built in on Day One of their work. For the ASU students, they get a very focused entire year of pediatric care and so they are better prepared coming into the organization.

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Can Academic Partnerships Fix the Nursing Shortage?

Health Leaders | Nursing

The goal behind the grant program, according to the HRSA, is to forge a pathway for students to enter the clinical environment by creating and implementing Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) or Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) to Registered Nurse (RN) bridge programs, and the employment of clinical nurse faculty.

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Advance Your Nursing Career: Creating a Nursing E-Portfolio is Easier Than You Think

Daily Nurse

But we do much more than obtain required continuing education hours, maintain certifications, and renew licenses. We should all record our many accomplishments, such as presentations, publications, preceptor hours, acts of service, etc. Where are you documenting that?

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Effective clinical learning for nursing students

American Nurse

The challenge A longstanding shortage of nursing school faculty and a reliance on new graduate nurses to serve as preceptors create challenges to properly preparing nursing students for a demanding role that requires excellent critical thinking skills. Clinical and lab assignments vary from 4- or 6-hour experiences to 12-hour shifts.

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U. of Montana to Bolster the Big Sky Country's Nursing Workforce

Health Leaders | Nursing

The University of Montana (UM) in Missoula will create an online, accelerated model to upskill licensed practical nurses (LPNs) to become RNs with the aid of a $3.6 This new nurse training program developed at Missoula College will create a pathway for licensed practical nurses in Montana to quickly upskill to become registered nurses." "We

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How Do Clinical Rotations Work in Online Nursing Schools?

Every Nurse

What to Expect in Nursing School Clinical Rotations Nursing clinicals are supervised periods of hands-on training in which nursing students experience the daily work of a professional healthcare provider and practice nursing skills under the direction of a preceptor. How Is Clinical Training Assessed in an Online Program?