AJCC
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

American Journal of Critical Care. 2007;16: 428
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Respond to This Article
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Douglass, K. F.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Douglass, K. F.
Nurse Residency Programs Are a Necessary Investment
FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES
None reported.

I found the July 2007 editorial1 quite unsettling. As chair of our shared governance body and a nursing educator in a cardiovascular progressive care unit, I see new nurses experiencing the same thoughts and feelings that John Blanton verbalized so eloquently in his Wall Street Journal article. Blanton truly captured the essence of the collision of nursing ideals with the stark reality of working on a unit. How tragic, though, that his experience led him to leave nursing altogether!

I am privileged to work at a university hospital that has just begun a University HealthSystem Consortium residency program for new bachelor of science in nursing grads as well as a program for new associate’s degree grads to help them successfully make the transition to life after nursing school. I am thankful that our administration sees the absolute necessity of providing these programs and has decided that they are worth the investment. And it truly is an investment in the future—not only an investment in the future of these new graduates, or in our hospital in particular, but in the health of our society as a whole.

Kristie F. Douglass, BSN, RN, PCCN
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina

REFERENCE

  1. Dracup K, Morris PE. Nurse residency programs: preparing for the next shift. Am J Crit Care. 2007;16:328–330.[Free Full Text]




This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Respond to This Article
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Douglass, K. F.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Douglass, K. F.

HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS