Nursing Orientation Program Builder: Essential Tools for Onboarding, Orientation, and Transition to Practice - Softcover

Swihart, Diana; Figueroa, Solimar

 
9781683081326: Nursing Orientation Program Builder: Essential Tools for Onboarding, Orientation, and Transition to Practice

Synopsis

Nursing Orientation Program Builder: Essential Tools for Onboarding, Orientation, and Transition to Practice
Diana Swihart, PhD, DMin, MSN, APN CS, RN-BC, FAAN
Solimar Figueroa, MHA, MSN, BSN, RN

The onboarding process can be a make or break period for a new employee. Nursing Orientation Program Builder will help elevate and accelerate this process, reduce the risk of losing new employees, and assist fresh hires to become productive team members. This book provides definitions, tools, and evidence-based strategies and resources to help organizations recruit and retain the best-qualified employees. It supplies a comprehensive onboarding and orientation program, along with methods to measure integration into service and practice.

This book will help you:
  • Develop a thorough and efficient onboarding process
  • Accelerate the onboarding process
  • Ensure successful candidate selection

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About the Author

Diana Swihart, PhD, DMin, MSN, APN CS, FAAN, is a consulting partner with the Forum for Shared Governance and the CEO and Managing Partner for the American Academy for Preceptor Advancement, enjoys many roles in her professional career, practicing in widely diverse clinical and nonclinical settings. An author, speaker, researcher, educator, and consultant, she has published and spoken nationally and internationally on a number of topics related to servant leadership, preceptors, shared governance, new employee onboarding and orientation, competency assessment, professional development, Magnet Recognition Program®, research, and evidence-based practice.

Solimar Figueroa, PhD, MSN, MHA, BSN, RN, P-PCA, brings more than 30 years of experience in her professional nursing practice. Now a Clinical Educator II in her current hospital-based position, her practice emanated from the Philippines, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Michigan, and Florida. Dr. Figueroa’s experience includes operating room nurse, operating room in-charge nurse, director of nursing, chief nursing officer, assistant director of nursing, clinical educator, director clinical services, and certified preceptor specialist.
 
 
 

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