Nurse Residency Facts
Formal education program designed to support new graduate nurses as they transition into their first professional role as healthcare professionals
What is the nurse residency program?
Describes the services that a qualified health professional is deemed competent to perform and permitted to undertake- in keeping with the terms of their professional license.
What is Scope of Practice?
Divided into nine provisions with interpretive statements
What is the Code of Ethics for Nurses?
A response to a physical or emotional stressors that leads to exhaustion, self-doubt, cynicism and ineffectiveness.
What is burnout?
Rates of this increased by 8.4% from 2021 to 2022 and stands at 27.1%
What is RN nurse turnover?
Has dedicated, full time responsibility for the nurse residency program
What is the Program Coordinator?
Defines scope of practice and interprets laws around the Nurse Practice Act
What is the State Board of Nursing?
State the nurse promotes, advocates for and protects the rights, health and safety of the patient.
What is provision 3 of the nursing code of ethics?
Develops when a nurse experiences stress related repeated exposure to high acuity and high patient volumes
What is compassion fatigue?
This professional group is less healthy, on average than the American public.
What is a nurse?
An integral component of the nurse residency program, utilizing the evidence-based process, supporting critical thinking and clinical development
What is developing a best practice initiative (EBP project)?
Founded in 1903 and was the first Board of Nursing in the nation
What is the North Carolina Board of Nursing?
States the nurse's primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, community or population.
What is provision 2 of the nursing code of ethics?
The ability to cope with and positively adjust to adversity
What is resiliency?
Roadmap to help you care for yourself as you care for others
What is "The Path to Emotional Well-Being at UNC Health"?
The nation's top nurse residency curriculum, designed to empower new graduate nurses and guide transition
What is the Vizient/AACN Nurse Residency Program™?
Partners with nursing authorities to set, revise and define nursing practice
What is the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSB)?
States the profession of nursing, collectively through its professional organizations, must articulate nursing values, maintain the integrity of the profession and integrate principles of social justice into and nursing and health policy.
What is provision 9 of the nursing code of ethics?
A communication tool used to build strong positive relationships
What is active constructive responding?
Current priority of the U.S. Surgeon General
What is Health Worker Burnout?
Validated tool used to evaluate and report nurse residency programs
What is the Casey-Fink Graduate Nurse Experience Survey?
Governed and enacted by state's legislature, providing guidelines and parameters for nurses in each state
What is the Nurse Practice Act (NPA)?
States the nurse, in all roles and settings, advances the profession through research and scholarly inquiry, professional standards development and the generation of both nursing and health policy
What is provision 7 of the nursing code of ethics?
Can retrain our brain to recognize (and remember) the good things around us.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy?
"Three Good Things"
Credited with a diverse background, serve as a resource, assist with de-escalation, service recovery and emergent situations
What is an UNC House Supervisor?