Creating Direct Care Leaders in the Trenches Instead of the Offices.

Direct care/bedside nurses rarely view themselves as leaders, yet they have a powerful influence regarding patient outcomes and overall patient satisfaction. We will show that by assisting the direct care bedside nurse in recognizing they are leaders and offering them additional education and resources through the Rising Stars program, the participants will better understand the influence they have over their patients and impact related to organizational outcomes.

Longitudinal Outcomes of an Institutionally Developed Nurse Residency Program.

Nurse residency programs are widely implemented to enhance integration of new graduate nurses entering the workforce. This article presents a retrospective analysis of 10 years of residency data from an internally developed residency program that used the Casey-Fink Graduate Nurse Experience Survey. Outcomes of this program were similar to those from studies using commercially available products, suggesting that an internally developed residency curricula may be equally beneficial to the development of new graduate nurses.