title: The implementation of a new-graduate nurse residency training program directly into psychiatric-mental health nursing.
abstract: The specialty of psychiatric mental health nursing, as with all of nursing, has reached a critical shortage, which is posing a crisis in health care. Historically, the practice in schools of nursing has been to strongly encourage graduates to experience medical-surgical nursing during their first year of employment while discouraging those new graduates who may be interested in going directly into a specialty from doing so. New-graduate nurse residency training programs have focused on the general nursing areas such as critical care, emergency nursing, and medical-surgical nursing, leaving the specialty area of psychiatric mental health with less of a cadre to draw from, as attraction to these training programs is great among new-graduate nurses. The focus of this article is the description of a creative and successful new-graduate residency training program directly into psychiatric mental health nursing. The components of this program are easily replicable to other facilities and nursing specialties.
authors: Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital, San Diego, CA 92130, USA. moodienurse@gmail.com
authors: Marlene
authors: M
authors: Nadler-Moodie
authors: Jeannine
authors: J
authors: Loucks
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D003479:Curriculum; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000458:organization & administration; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D012570:School Admission Criteria