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Best practices of formal new graduate nurse transition programs: An integrative review

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The stronger evidence suggests that new graduate education should focus on practical skill development, preceptors should receive a level of formal training, formal support should be available at least through the difficult six to nine month post-hire period, opportunities for connection with their peers should be provided, and organizations should strive to ensure clinical units with healthy work environments.
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This article is published in International Journal of Nursing Studies.The article was published on 2013-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 382 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nursing research & Mentorship.

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Use of Mobile Phone Text Message Reminders in Health Care Services: A Narrative Literature Review

TL;DR: Although SMS reminders are used with different patient groups in health care, SMS is less systematically studied with randomized controlled trial study design, although the amount of evidence for SMS application recommendations is still limited, having 77% of the studies showing improved outcomes may indicate its use in health Care settings.
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A systematic review of the effectiveness of strategies and interventions to improve the transition from student to newly qualified nurse.

TL;DR: The evidence suggests that transition interventions/strategies do lead to improvements in confidence and competence, job satisfaction, critical thinking and reductions in stress and anxiety for the newly qualified nurse.
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New graduate nurses' experiences about lack of professional confidence.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that the development of professional confidence is a dynamic process that occurs throughout the first year of practice, and new graduate nurses must experience both positive and negative circumstances in order to move toward the attainment of professionalconfidence.
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Characteristics of successful interventions to reduce turnover and increase retention of early career nurses: A systematic review.

TL;DR: A wide variety of interventions and components within those interventions were identified to improve nurse retention and turnover, and clinical practice areas are recommended to assess their current interventions against the identified criteria to guide development of their effectiveness.
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The Integrative Research Review: A Systematic Approach

Harris Cooper
TL;DR: In this article, the problem formulation stage is followed by the data collection stage, the data evaluation stage, and the analysis and interpretation stage, followed by a public presentation stage concluding the problem.
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Revisiting nurse turnover costs: adjusting for inflation.

TL;DR: A method to inflation adjust baseline nurse turnover costs using the Consumer Price Index is presented to gain current knowledge of organizational nurse turnover Costs when primary data collection is not practical and to determine costs and potential savings if nurse retention investments are made.
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Improving Retention, Confidence, And Competence of New Graduate Nurses: Results from a 10-Year Longitudinal Database

TL;DR: This study provides persuasive evidence that both new graduate nurses and their organizations benefit from the implementation of a structured, clinical immersion RN residency.
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The graduate nurse experience: qualitative residency program outcomes

TL;DR: Qualitative analysis provided sufficient evidence to convert specific open-ended questions on the Casey-Fink Graduate Nurse Experience Survey instrument to a quantitative format for ease of administration and analysis.
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A crisis in critical thinking

TL;DR: Aggregate results for competency assessment of new registered nurses using the Performance Based Development System indicate that most new graduates do not meet expectations for entry-level clinical judgment ability.
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