Rebuilding Our Workforce: Strategies for Recruiting, Training and Retaining New Graduate Nurses

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

This foundational session examines the process employed and lessons learned over the course of 1 year to successfully recruit and redesign orientation for over 20 new graduate nurses on a surgical/trauma progressive care unit at an urban academic medical center. Strategies include partnering with nursing schools, offering preceptor training, creation of a 1-day orientation crash course and the development and implementation of an 8-hour trauma academy.

Objectives

Review literature that describes generational differences regarding learning needs and work culture preferences of new graduate nurses.
Assess the evidence supporting the transition from a patient-layered model to a task-layered model of nursing orientation.
Examine the development of a population-specific class that supports the progression from novice to advanced beginner nurse.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Successful Completion

Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.

Accreditation

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for {contactHours} contact hours.

Disclosures

Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.

Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity. Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.

Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion.

Refund Policy

Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.