Projects

	Center for Career Learning
	Health Careers Toolkit
	Health Careers Web Portal
	I-WISE Facilitator Training
	Incumbent Worker Training
	Nurse Work Readiness
	Perfecting Patient CareSM
	Previous Accomplishments

Nurse Work Readiness

Nurse Work Readiness Project (NWRP) demonstrates strategies that reduce dissatisfaction and attrition rates of graduate nurses. New nurses leave their profession or original employer at a rate as high as 65 percent within the first year of employment. Based on research on this happening, NWRP hypothesis is that increased knowledge in patient safety, systems, work design, problem solving and outcome measurement make graduate nurses better equipped to manage and excel in current healthcare work environment.

The primary indicator of project efficacy is participants' success during orientation compared to their graduate nurse counterparts. This will be determined through pre and post assessments of participants and quantitative and qualitative surveys of participants and their preceptors or supervisors zero, three, and six months after participants begin working in the healthcare environment. Project partnerships include regional schools of nursing and healthcare employers.

Project services are offered to nursing students in their final year of diploma, associate, baccalaureate and second-degree programs in one 3 to 4 hours session once a week for one month. Instruction style is didactic with interactive learning components, complementary materials that reinforce learning, and discussion of lessons practiced and tools utilized during training.

Sessions cover topics such as:

• Building Relationships - communication, delegation and conflict management, teamwork, problem solving, and change.
• From Student to Nurse - transitioning from novice to expert, reality shock, patient safety, Perfecting Patient Care^SM, outcome measurement, and Situational Leadership^TM
• Careers in Nursing - positive portrayal of the profession, professional nursing organizations, continuing education, and finding/negotiating for a job

This project is funded by the Department of Labor - Employment and Training Administration.

For more information on this project, please contact Jan Setzenfand at 412.594.2552 or e-mail at setzenfand@jhf.org.