title: Academic-Practice Partnerships for Unemployed New Graduates in California.
abstract: In California, academic-practice partnerships offer innovative transition programs to new registered nurse (RN) graduates who have not yet found positions in nursing. This report describes the formation of 4 partnerships between 1 or more schools of nursing and clinical practice sites that included hospitals and nonacute care settings, such as hospice, clinics, school districts, and skilled nursing facilities. Factors facilitating the partnerships included relationships established as nurse leaders from practice and academia came together to address previous workforce issues, positive interpersonal experiences, an independent convening and coordinating organization, a shared understanding of the employment challenge faced by new RN graduates, and a shared vision for its solution. Partnerships face continuing challenges that include sustaining engagement, resource constraints, and insufficient nursing leadership succession planning. Partnership benefits include improved relationships between academia and practice, a forum to address contemporary issues in nursing education and practice advances, and stimulation of a reassessment of how to integrate ambulatory, transitional, and community-based nursing into prelicensure education.
authors.affiliation: Chair and Professor, Department of Nursing & Health Sciences, California State University-East Bay, 25800 Carlos Bee Blvd., Hayward, CA, 94562.. Electronic address: PVan@samuelmerritt.edu.
authors.forename: Paulina
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Van
authors.affiliation: Dean and Professor, School of Nursing, Samuel Merritt University, 3100 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA, 94609.. Electronic address: aberman@samuelmerritt.edu.
authors.forename: Audrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Berman
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Health Professions, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94117.. Electronic address: jfkarshmer@ufca.edu.
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Karshmer
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Health Professions, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94117.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Prion
authors.affiliation: Program Director, California Institute for Nursing & Health Care, 663 13th Street Suite 300, Oakland, CA, 94612.. Electronic address: nikki@cinhnc.org.
authors.forename: Nikki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: West
authors.affiliation: Professional Development Consultant, National Patient Care Services, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA, 94612.. Electronic address: jonalyn.wallace@kp.org.
authors.forename: Jonalyn
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wallace
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D009740:Nursing Staff; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D014478:Unemployment
keywords: Nursing education; Nursing/Manpower; Nursing/Supply and distribution; Professional practice/nursing