Competency: Virtual medical center helps new graduate nurses increase confidence
HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, January 1, 2010
This is an excerpt from a member only article. To read the article in its entirety, please login.
New grads have a tricky balancing act to perform involving learning new skills, committing policies and procedures to memory, prioritizing patients’ needs, and even remembering where the supply closet is. Wouldn’t it be nice if they had a safe environment in which to practice those skills before being thrust onto the unit and dealing with real patients?
That’s the idea behind Phoenix-based Banner Health System’s new simulation center. The organization is hoping that simulation holds the key to successfully onboarding new nurses and helping them transition swiftly to become competent, confident nurses.
This is an excerpt from a member only article. To read the article in its entirety, please login.
Related Products
-
A Practical Guide to Staff Development, Second Edition
Staff development specialists can turn to one resource to become competent and compelling educators while implementing...
-
Learning Styles in Nursing Education:
This unique book and CD-ROM provide practical, cutting-edge information to help staff development specialists identify...
-
Innovation in Nursing Staff Development
This ground-breaking resource guides staff development professionals through a wide variety of proven, cutting-edge teaching...
-
The Path to Stress-Free Nursing Professional Development:
This practical resource offers quick, no-nonsense advice from someone who's been there. Author Adrianne E. Avillion, DEd...
-
Onboarding New Graduate Nurses: How to Overcome Hurdles and Retain New Nurses
This 90-minute webcast demonstrates how the onboarding process for new graduate nurses will increase retention and speed up...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- CMS seeks comment on quality measures
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- The consequences of an incomplete medical record
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- Nursing responsibilities for managing pain
- ICD-10-CM coma, stroke codes require more specific documentation
- Neurological checks for head injuries
- Q&A: Primary, principal, and secondary diagnoses
- Skills of effective case managers
- E-mailed
-
- Establish an ongoing records review process with five easy steps
- Know the JCAHO's ongoing records review requirements
- Tip: Report drugs with HCPCS code, revenue code 636
- The pros and cons of geographic rounds
- Know the medical gas cylinder storage requirements
- Know the JCAHO's ongoing records review requirements
- Hold a scavenger hunt to prepare for survey
- Clear up confusion surrounding observation services
- Assisted living home owner bills Medicaid from unlicensed facility
- Analyzing nurse staffing: Understanding FTEs
- Searched