GALEN CENTER FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
With more than ten years of expertise in Nursing Transition to Practice, GCPD delivers evidence-based resources that accelerate the successful transition of newly licensed and transitioning nurses into safe, confident, and independent practitioners.
The expertise that established GCPD as a leader in Nursing Transition to Practice now drives competency management solutions for your entire healthcare workforce.
The Problem We Solve
Hospital onboarding (competency management) is often complex, duplicative, expensive, and rigid. Large platforms rely on standardized content, per-user pricing, and costly customization—forcing hospitals to adapt their processes to the system rather than the system adapting to them. This results in unnecessary administrative burden, duplicate documentation for accreditors, and escalating costs as organizations scale.
Our Ideal Customer
The ideal customer is the hospital that wants to decrease their risk of unprepared nurses, retain newly hired nurses, and reduce the cost of onboarding.
Vision & Mission
Vision
Seamless, efficient competency management for your entire workforce.
Mission
To provide healthcare organizations with competency management solutions, evidence-based tools, and unparallel support.
Expected Returns
Customers will see an immediate financial return piloting one cohort of new graduates using RPIs. The financial return can project cost savings based on onboarding practices for new graduate nurses.
Accelerating Nurses’ Readiness to Practice
The Center for Professional Resources helps hospitals accelerate the timeline new nurses need to practice independently. GCPD resources can help new nurses move into productive staffing EARLIER:
Readiness timeframe with & without GCPD resources:
VS.
8-10 WEEKS WITH
15-25 WEEKS WITHOUT
USC Verdugo Hills Hospital
Our partnership has helped us transform the nurse residency experience into a more structured, evidence-based, and professional role-driven transition to practice program. By integrating the Readiness to Practice Indicators, clinical competencies, with intentional preceptor support, we have been able to better guide new graduate nurses toward confidence, clinical judgment, and professional role clarity as they move into independent practice. Galen has helped us build a program that reflects the very heart of our intent: to prepare new graduate nurses as confident, accountable professionals rooted in nursing as both a discipline and a profession.
Leah Korkis, MSN, RN, AGCNS, NPD-BC
Director of Clinical Education and Nursing Excellence
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
Our organization is captivated by how easy the Nurse Development Resources electronic platform (Engage) is to navigate. This tool supports me in my Internal Driver role to promote standardization and accountability with nurse leaders, preceptors and RN’s assigned to use system. The design provides a transparency that allows me to easily track RN progress and quickly identify areas that need immediate attention.
Thanks for a great product!
Carrie Hamilton, MSN, RN, CCRN, Nurse Professional Development
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
Our organization was searching for a new platform to document in real time the progress of our onboarding program for nurses. The Engage platform offered us the ability to tailor the orientation process to each staff member but maintain the integrity of the program. The GCPD staff provided incredible support during our transition process.
The team at GCPD also facilitated our creation of a platform that met our needs as a diverse organization.
Ashley Pond, MSN, RN-BC, Nurse Professional
Development Specialist
UMC Health System
Galen has provided an evidence-based tool that has enhanced our orientation process for nurses. Having this has allowed for open communication for all involved while being a platform to promote positive conversations during the transition period. The modules have been very well received! We have an 8-hour day, and nurses verbalized they are interactive and engaging to do. GCPD has transformed the method by which we assess competency in our organization. We have successfully transitioned from paper “skills checklists” to true competency assessment and documentation. Our users are so pleased with the ease of function, site accessibility, and support of the GCPD platform.