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Qualified Preceptors Make a Difference
For each new nurse, a typical healthcare organization spends $50,000 or more on orientation. Yet in 2006, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing reported that, among nurses in practice about 1 year, 33% of RNs and 40% of LPN/LVNs had changed nursing positions or were planning to do so within a year. When you do the math, such a high turnover rate can severely strain any hospital’s budget.
In addition to increased costs, low nurse recruitment and retention can reduce the quality of patient care. Hospital administrators know that quality care can’t be delivered without a competent, stable nursing staff. Full Article>>
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Online Preceptor Course Premiers at NNSDO Convention (NNSDO Trendlines, July/Aug '09)
Mosby’s Preceptor Course, a collaborative effort of the National Nursing Staff Development Organization (NNSDO) and Elsevier/Elsevier / MC Strategies, will premier at the NNSDO 2009 Conference.
The course is a blended learning experience with fifteen online lessons that lay the foundation for effectively performing the role of preceptor. Each lesson is complemented with at least one offline preceptor activity that is completed independently and is the basis for sharing and discussion with the educator or in a facilitated group
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