title: Graduate nurse internship program: a formalized orientation program.
abstract: The graduate nurse internship program was developed on the basis of Watson's Human Caring Theory. In this article, the author discusses how an orientation program was formalized into an internship program and how the theory was applied.
authors.affiliation: Tracy Phillips, DNP, RN, NE-BC, is Pulmonary/Telemetry Unit Director, Baptist Health Paducah, Kentucky. Mellisa Hall, DNP, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, GNP-BC, is Assistant Professor, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville.
authors.forename: Tracy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Phillips
authors.forename: Mellisa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hall
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D007318:Inservice Training; D007397:Internship, Nonmedical; D016294:Models, Nursing; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D009742:Nursing Theory