{"title":"Practicum to Practice Program: Improve Nurse Recruitment and Assist Schools of Nursing while Decreasing Length and Cost of Nurse Onboarding","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.mnl.2023.11.009","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>An innovative pre-hire clinical placement program offers nursing students an opportunity to select a 1:1 senior practicum placement and accept their first job as a registered nurse on that same unit, prior to the start of the final semester practicum course of an entry-to-practice nursing program. This placement program provides a competitive recruiting strategy for a regional health system, a desired level of autonomy for nursing students, decreased orientation costs, assistance to schools of nursing by offering senior practicum sites, and increased recruitment of new graduate nurses during a critical nursing shortage in the United States.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44980,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Leader","volume":"22 4","pages":"Pages 434-437"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nurse Leader","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1541461223003294","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"NURSING","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
An innovative pre-hire clinical placement program offers nursing students an opportunity to select a 1:1 senior practicum placement and accept their first job as a registered nurse on that same unit, prior to the start of the final semester practicum course of an entry-to-practice nursing program. This placement program provides a competitive recruiting strategy for a regional health system, a desired level of autonomy for nursing students, decreased orientation costs, assistance to schools of nursing by offering senior practicum sites, and increased recruitment of new graduate nurses during a critical nursing shortage in the United States.
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Nurse Leader provides the vision, skills, and tools needed by nurses currently in, or aspiring to, leadership positions. The bimonthly journal provides nurses with practical information in an easy-to-read format - offering the knowledge they need to succeed. It pulls together insights from a broad spectrum of successful management and leadership perspectives and tailors the information to the specific needs of nurses. Columns include The Coaching Forum and Lessons Learned.