Carolyn Swinton, Veronica Deas, Karen Worthy, Carol Lambdin, Jeannette O Andrews
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Abstract
Highly skilled new graduate nurses must be better prepared to face the clinical and professional challenges in today's healthcare environment. Compounding these challenges are the growing resignations of clinical faculty and experienced clinical nurses. Innovative programs are needed to bridge the knowledge-practice gap with opportunities to create pipelines to aid the future nursing workforce. A multihospital health system partnered with a local college of nursing to develop a Nursing Student Pipeline Program, which allows nursing students to perform select nursing tasks as employees of the health system. Fifty-six students have been hired to participate in the pilot program. Of the students eligible for hire and who completed the program, 24 are current employees with the healthcare system. Students, preceptors, and managers report the benefits of this program, including that participating in the program supports increasing readiness for practice upon graduation.
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