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NEWS & RESEARCH

Read the latest news from GCPD! We are always looking at the latest News, Research, and Thought Leadership regarding helping newly licensed nurses transition into safe, independent practice. Be sure to check here regularly for the latest news and updates.

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March 2019

Almost Speechless

A message from Director of Galen Center for Professional Development, in partnership with Whisper’s Children’s Hospital Jinja, Uganda, and Healing the Children, Kentucky.

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January 2026

Building Professional Role Clarity Into
Transition to Practice

Read first-hand end-users ' experience with our Readiness to Practice Indicators. We intersect EBP, innovation, and meaningfulness to the transition to practice space and professional nurse development.

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August 2023

Readiness to Practice Indicators:
Accelerating New Graduate Nurses
Toward Independent Practice

Readiness to Practice Indicators (RPIs) are an evidence-based tool intended as a determinant for independent practice that synthesizes the scope and standards of nursing practice with

a focus on how to manage a patient assignment.

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October 2016

Transitioning Nurses:
How Do We Know They Know?

Knowing when newly hired nurses are ready

for inclusion in productive staffing is a

challenge for nurse leaders in all practice settings.

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January 2020

Seeing Beyond Traditional Measurement: Recognizing the Value
of the Experience of the Place, the People, and Their Work

Seeing beyond traditional measurement means knowing the story behind the outcome. It means recognizing the value of the experience of the place, the people, and their work.

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January 2016

Benchmarks: An Evidence-based Approach to Creating
High Performing Nurses

This article introduces the concept of evidence-based benchmarks as a mechanism to determine readiness to practice safely, competently and independently among novice and experienced nurses who are in transition.

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February 2024

From Becker's Hospital Review:
Nearly 1 in 3 nurse leaders planning to exit their hospital roles in '24

Nurse leaders say they do not have sufficient financial resources to address the needs of their workforce. 

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February 2024

From Becker's Hospital Review:
Why 1 hospital launched a 'designated education unit' for new nurses

Mercy Fort Smith (Ark.) Hospital has launched a new 18-bed unit, which will have a 4:1 patient to nurse ratio. The unit is specifically designed to provide close contact, hands-on training for new graduate nurses.

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February 2024

From Becker's Hospital Review:
The strategies that dropped vacancy rates at 10 systems

In the midst of staff shortages, health systems and healthcare groups have become more creative and focused on retention strategies.

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March 2024

From Becker's Hospital Review:
ANA to revamp Magnet criteria for 1st time in 16 years

Plans March 8 for its American Nurses Enterprise Research Council to begin a review and modernization process of its Magnet designation criteria for hospitals.

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