Evaluating newly employed nurses' skills.
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J B Bliss
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Nursing faculty--an endangered species?
A present faculty shortage has been documented, and the potential for an even worse shortage in the future is very real. Implications of a continued shortage for both nursing education and practice are serious. They include limitations on enrollments leading to future nursing shortages, burnout of present faculty, or possible decline in the quality of programs. Contributing factors such as aging of educators, fewer graduate students going into teaching, non-competitive salaries, and increased job opportunities for nurses with graduate degrees are explored. Possible solutions include adding more education courses or tracks in graduate programs, obtaining increased federal funds for graduate education, emphasizing the many rewards and benefits of the faculty role, recruiting faculty from new areas, mentoring people into teaching, giving flexible teaching assignments to older faculty members, and making changes in the ways that clinical instruction is performed.
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Generic orientation for agency nurses.
The nurse shortage in hospitals has brought increased entry routes to RNs. One is the employment agency. This pool of nurses has facilitated staffing, but concerned administrators struggle to meet accreditation criteria for orientation of these employees while containing costs. One method is a generic orientation program. The result is a cost savings for hospital administrators, a successful continuing education program, and an assurance of the education/training of employees hired through outside agencies.
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