Learning Objective 1: The learner will be able to identify a curricular approach for addressing the contemporary issues in new graduate nurse transition to professional practice.
Learning Objective 2: The learner will be able to state the evidence-informed components of a nursing course designed to address the challenges of new graduate transition.
Currently, new RN transition strategies rely primarily on mentoring models that exist at the workplace level. There is emerging recognition of the need for a continuum of transition support that begins earlier, bridging the academic and the employment sectors. Recognizing this need, and using the best evidence, an innovative fourth year level course was designed to ease the transition of BScN candidates in the final semester of their nursing program.
This presentation highlights the development and implementation of a double-weighted fourth year level course that is taken concurrently with clinical preceptorship. Drawing upon the support of community partners, university career development resources, and former students, BScN candidates differentiate between ‘fact’ and ‘fiction’ when exploring current issues in transition, including ethical distress, interprofessional collaboration, and intergenerational conflict. In the self-directed component of the course, students apply evidence-based practice to ‘bust’ a myth related to a contemporary nursing practice topic of interest. Student outcomes and implications for successful transition will be discussed.
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