Innovative Strategies to Facilitate Newly Licensed Nurse Transition to Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Quality Improvement Project.

As healthcare facilities transition from initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative to consider innovative strategies to overcome instructional challenges presented to nursing schools in order to maintain a competent workforce amidst nursing shortages and increasing patient volumes and complexity. Nursing professional development practitioners will play a pivotal role in revitalizing transition-to-practice programs to meet the demands of the new workforce. This article details an academia-practice initiative for newly licensed nurses who enter practice during the pandemic.

Faculty perceptions of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on new graduate nurses' transition to practice: A qualitative study.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted nursing education worldwide. Most studies have focused on how the pandemic affected students. With an alarming workforce shortage, a better understanding of the pandemic's impact on new nurses is vital to proactively develop strategies to promote success of the profession's newest members.

Bridging the Gap: Implementation of Skills Review Days for New Graduate Nurses.

This article will inform the reader about challenges of onboarding new graduate nurses during COVID-19 and discuss how to combat those challenges. New graduate nurses attended a skills day and completed pre- and postsurveys, rating their level of confidence in the same identified skills. Each participant showed improved confidence ( p < .

Nurse faculty perceptions of readiness for practice among new nurses graduating during the pandemic.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic caused major changes in nursing education, namely a shift to remote learning and significant reduction of clinical practice experience. It is not known how these changes will affect new graduate nurses transitioning to practice.

Purpose: To provide guidance to transition-to-practice programs, this study quantitatively described and compared nurse faculty perceptions of readiness for practice among students who graduated pre-pandemic and those who will graduate during the pandemic.

Nurse Preceptor Role in New Graduate Nurses' Transition to Practice.

The transition to practice period is a challenging and demanding time for new graduate nurses. Leaving the structured environment of nursing school and entering professional practice can cause reality and transition shock for the new nurse resulting in unsafe patient care, as well as intention to leave their position or the profession. Successful transition to practice depends on the new nurse building confidence and gaining essential clinical reasoning abilities while orienting to their role.