title: Nurse residency program: best practices for optimizing organizational success.
abstract: A nurse residency program's best practice recommendations are presented within this article and are organized around three processes: establishing the program infrastructure, creating a multistaged evidence-based program, and sustaining the program through appropriate evaluation and dissemination of results. These recommendations represent lessons learned and key findings derived from a team of academic and nursing professional development educators after 7 years of residency program implementation at multiple rural and urban hospital sites. Organizations, regardless of size and resources, can use these recommendations to increase the likelihood of building a successful residency program.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA. marilyn.bratt@marquette.edu
authors.forename: Marilyn
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meyer Bratt
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D055318:Evidence-Based Nursing; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007397:Internship, Nonmedical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008611:Mentors; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009736:Nursing Process; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education*; D011231:Preceptorship; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012944:Social Support; D012956:Societies, Nursing