Evaluation of a community transition to professional practice program for graduate registered nurses in Australia
Australia has an increasing demand for a sustainable primary health care registered nursing workforce. Targeting graduate registered nurses who typically begin their nursing career in acute-care hospital settings is a potential workforce development strategy. We evaluated a graduate registered nurse Community Transition to Professional Practice Program which was designed specifically to develop and foster skills required for primary health care. The aims of this study were to evaluate graduates' intention to remain in the primary health care nursing workforce, and graduate competency, confidence and experiences of program support; these were compared with graduates undertaking the conventional acute-care transition program.
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - Category: Nursing Authors: Christina Aggar, Christopher J. Gordon, Tamsin H.T. Thomas, Linda Wadsworth, Jacqueline Bloomfield Tags: Clinical education Source Type: research
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