Nursing Orientation Program Builder: Essential Tools for Onboarding, Orientation, and Transition to Practice Diana Swihart, PhD, DMin, MSN, APN CS, RN-BC, FAAN Solimar Figueroa, MHA, MSN, BSN, RN The onboarding process can be a make or break period for a new employee. Nursing Orientation Program Builder will help elevate and accelerate this process, reduce the risk of losing new employees, and assist fresh hires to become productive team members. This book provides definitions, tools, and evidence-based strategies and resources to help organizations recruit and retain the best-qualified employees. It supplies a comprehensive onboarding and orientation program, along with methods to measure integration into service and practice. This book will help you: Develop a thorough and efficient onboarding process Accelerate the onboarding process Ensure successful candidate selection

You've passed your NCELX, survived your first interview, and just landed your first nursing job! Now what? This new grad RN survival guide was written to help you navigate your first nursing orientation. From what to expect on your first day to surviving your first code blue, WWFD aims to help you navigate the reality shock as you transition from nursing student to bedside RN. Among other things, you will find advice on how to give an effective hand-off report, cluster your care, efficiently complete up to five patient assessments in less than three hours, and learn how to page a physician like a BOSS. Using humor and practical real-world nursing experience, this short and sweet book aims to take you from new nurse to Florence Nightingale status in less than three months!

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The Guide serves as a valuable resource for orienting nurses new to ambulatory care as well as developing comprehensive competency assessment programs. A wide selection of age specific and specialty care topics are covered, including telehealth. The Guide contains many enhancements: 1) updated content from the previous book with definitions, Key Tips, and examples; 2) chapters on nurse educator competencies, defining the educator's role in ambulatory care and providing guidance and tools for use in developing needed competency; 3) a tool kit for transitioning to ambulatory care with many helpful links and resources; and 4) an appendix containing sample orientation and competency tools that will help you develop your own tools.

The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles-including limits on nurses' scope of practice-should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.

"Where was this book when I was a new nurse just learning the ropes of labor and delivery? This is a true gem of a book-a must for any new grad going into labor and deliveryÖ.I recommend this book for every labor and delivery floor." Cindy Curtis, RNC, IBCLC, CCE Former Director, The Family Birth Center Culpeper Regional Hospital Lignum, VA "The best one stop reference book for the experienced and noviced Labor and Delivery RN....Finally an excellent Labor and Delivery book by RN's -- for RN's." Garla DeWall, RNC Presbyterian Hospital in the Family Birthing Center Albuquerque, New Mexico Labor and delivery nursing requires critical thinking, constant caring, teamwork, and communication. As the first line of defense to prevent injury, labor and delivery nurses take on some of the most difficult and trying challenges in the delivery room. Murray and Huelsmann present this clinically oriented guide to help labor and delivery nurses make wise decisions in the delivery room. The authors provide a wealth of insight on how to maximize both maternal and fetal outcomes. This book provides authoritative guidance on intervention options, creation of patient-centered plans of care, and improved communication with other members of the obstetrics team. Special Features: Explains the stages and phases of delivery, pain management, patient assessment, and much more Features references, relevant graphics, skills checklists, and review questions at the end of each section Useful for RNs new to the field, seasoned practitioners looking for updated methods and data, and nurses preparing for certification and licensure With this book, nurses will gain the confidence and competence to approach labor and delivery challenges with care and efficiency.