The collegial clinical model for orientation of new graduate nurses: a strategy to improve the transition from student nurse to professional nurse.

Full Abstract

The orientation process assists the graduate nurse (GN) to make the transition from nursing student to professional nurse. The collegial clinical model is an orientation strategy that was designed, developed, and implemented to assist GNs with this transition. GNs are familiar with the composition of a clinical group as this is the manner in which the hospital experiences are designed in nursing school. With the nurse educator effectively functioning as a clinical instructor during 3 days of the clinical orientation, the GNs ease into the transition to the unit on which they will be working. Four GNs hired to work on the postpartum unit during June 2006 participated in the pilot test of the collegial clinical model. Quotations from the reflective journal exercise that the GNs completed clearly show the benefit of this type of orientation. Preorientation and postorientation meetings with preceptors also highlight the benefits of this model as an orientation strategy.

Author information

Author/s: Salera-Vieira, Jean (J);

Affiliation: Women & Infants' Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island 02905, USA. jsalera(-atsign-)wihri.org

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Evaluation Studies; Journal Article

Journal: Journal for nurses in staff development : JNSD : official journal of the National Nursing Staff Development Organization (J Nurses Staff Dev), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: -2009 Jul-Aug; vol 25 (issue 4) : pp 174-81; quiz 182-3

Dates: Created 2009/08/06; Completed 2009/10/29;

PMID: 19657248, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 10/29/2009, IMS Date: )

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