Creating Direct Care Leaders in the Trenches Instead of the Offices.

Direct care/bedside nurses rarely view themselves as leaders, yet they have a powerful influence regarding patient outcomes and overall patient satisfaction. We will show that by assisting the direct care bedside nurse in recognizing they are leaders and offering them additional education and resources through the Rising Stars program, the participants will better understand the influence they have over their patients and impact related to organizational outcomes.

Professional Organization Membership: The Benefits of Increasing Nursing Participation.

Membership in professional organizations is a way for professionals with similar objectives to join together to have the voice of many, versus the voice of one. Joining an organization can lead to personal growth, enhanced professional prospective and knowledge development, and support for creating change.

Clinical Research Nursing: Development of a Residency Program
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Clinical research nurses are essential in the coordination of clinical trials and the management of research participants. Without a stable, knowledgeable research nurse workforce, the conduct of research is affected. A research nurse residency is a novel approach to preparing new graduate nurses for the oncology research nurse role. This article will describe the development and content of the research nurse residency and how this approach is being used to address a need for clinical research nurses to support burgeoning clinical trials at a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center.
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Longitudinal Outcomes of an Institutionally Developed Nurse Residency Program.

Nurse residency programs are widely implemented to enhance integration of new graduate nurses entering the workforce. This article presents a retrospective analysis of 10 years of residency data from an internally developed residency program that used the Casey-Fink Graduate Nurse Experience Survey. Outcomes of this program were similar to those from studies using commercially available products, suggesting that an internally developed residency curricula may be equally beneficial to the development of new graduate nurses.