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The pandemic has enhanced professional nursing's role in ambulatory and telehealth practice, and reinforced the academic preparation gap for practice-ready nurses in these specialties. Population health and community-focused care, fully leveraging ambulatory and telehealth practices, are the immerging venues of health care and a solution to health care equity and affordability. Accelerated academic reformation is pivotal to fundamentally prepare for the nursing's essential post-pandemic role. An overview of key industry report recommendations, disruptive innovation exemplars in academic design for ambulatory and telehealth practice-ready graduates, and implications for nurse executives in leading this transformation are identified.
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The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive overview of the experience of one cardiovascular surgical ICU (CVSICU) orienting new graduate registered nurses (NGRNs) directly to critical care. The authors share a collective experience of interviewing, hiring, orienting, and retaining NGRN to a CVSICU. The formal orientation processes and the critical care training program, Essentials of Progressive and Intensive Care, are detailed. The nursing leadership roles of placement coordinator, nurse manager, nursing education specialist, and clinical nurse specialist in this process are identified. Lastly, opportunities for growth are examined.
