title: Needs assessment: blueprint for a nurse graduate orientation employer toolkit.
abstract: Southern Nevada nurse employers are resistant to hiring new graduate nurses (NGNs) because of their difficulties in making the transition into the workplace. At the same time, employers consider nurse residencies cost-prohibitive. Therefore, an alternative strategy was developed to assist employers with increasing the effectiveness of existing NGN orientation programs. A needs assessment of NGNs, employers, and nursing educators was completed, and the results were used to develop a toolkit for employers.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Kaplan College, Las Vegas, NV, USA. mcylke@cox.net
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cylke
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000379:methods*; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000592:standards*; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020380:Needs Assessment; D009505:Nevada; D009729:Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods*; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D055815:Young Adult