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onboard the 600 new grads we’ re hiring,” says CNO Nancy Blake, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAONL.“ We’ re essentially pulling clinical staff away from the bedside to meet needs.”
Other leaders are fast-tracking younger nurses to onboarding roles.“ Some of our grads from last year will likely serve as preceptors for the new class,” says Sharon Stemm, MSN, RN, NE-BC, associate CNO at South Shore Health, Weymouth, Mass.“ We’ re working hard to give them the tools they need.”
Sometimes looking beyond the facility walls can help provide necessary
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education.“ Bedside nurses who are also practice experts are being pulled in many directions, so we’ re partnering with others to address education needs,” says Carolyn Yoder, DNP, RN, CENP, CNO at the University of St. Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Build tiered skill acquisition models Several leaders use a tiered acquisition approach, allowing new nurses to master one skill at a time under a preceptor’ s guidance. Instead of assigning recent grads med-surg patients of their own, preceptors
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allow them to focus on one procedure for multiple patients.
“ We may start them with vital signs and then move on to medications,” says CNO Helene Burns, AtlantiCare in Egg Harbor, N. J.“ The preceptor assesses performance before letting them move on to another skill. We’ ve just started this process, but it has a lot of positives,” Burns adds.
" Experienced nurses help new nurses gain a feel for nursing, something that orientations focused on procedural skills and documentation requirements can overlook,” Newman says.“ I’ m impressed
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