Improving New Nurse Experiences by Designing a Unified Nurse Residency Program and Incorporating Wellness Check-Ins Across a Large Healthcare System
The first year of nursing practice is a critical timeframe prone to high stress, high turnover, and low engagement. To overcome these hardships in an era of significant nursing shortages, we unified new nurse integration across our multihospital healthcare system by redesigning our Nurse Residency Program (NRP). We revamped curriculum and instituted a wellness check-in to improve new nurse experiences. The NRP was well received and improved our ability to individualize needs of new nurses.
Authors
- Maribeth McLaughlin
- Eric H. Harley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4997-5334)
- Cindy A. Liberi
- Stefanie C Altieri Dunn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0017-4687)
- Jennifer Parrotte
- Catherine Thomas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5898-1479)
- Lisa Sheehan
- Lisa R Bauccio
Institutions
- Apple (Israel) (IL)
- Royal College of Nursing (GB)
- Morgan Stanley (United States) (US)
- UPMC Health System (US)
- Forbes Hospital (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal for Nurses in Professional Development
- Published
- 2025-09-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/nnd.0000000000001164
- Primary Topic
- Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00