title: Financial, performance, and organizational outcomes of a nurse extern program.
abstract: Nurse externships help prepare nursing students for practice, but the organizational costs are high. To decrease costs, nurse educators collaborated to revise their existing nurse extern program. Nursing professional development educators who want to implement a nurse extern program within an organization will benefit by learning about the planning, implementation, and evaluation of a nurse extern program designed to decrease costs while producing well-prepared new graduate nurses.
authors.affiliation: Kenneth John Oja, MS, RN, is Clinical Education Specialist, Banner Health Department of Clinical Education, Phoenix, Arizona.
authors.forename: Kenneth John
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Oja
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D011231:Preceptorship / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation