Quality Improvement Project on Leadership

Leadership
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Quality improvement project
* Preparing orientation binder for new hire nurses
* Ensuring successful transition to practice requires orientation, feedback and supportive mentors, but inadequate staffing affects the transition process.
* Nursing students are not practice-ready after completing their studies and this affects their ability to provide adequate care (Missen, McKenna, Beauchamp, & Larkins, 2016).
* Fostering learning in a positive working environment facilitates transition for the newly employed nurses.
Research/ evidence
* Research was conducted online, and there was search for relevant and recent articles on the effectiveness of orientation of newly employed registered nurses including residency.
* Focusing on orientation to ensure that nurses fit in the workplace and improving their practice competencies are associated with better health outcomes.
* Structured learning activities ease transition when there is orientation for new nurses
* Empowering and supporting professional practice to improve outcomes.
Purpose
* Determine the impact of formal orientation programs
* Information on organizational culture, policies, procedures and expectations facilitates transition for the new nurses (Refan et al., 2017).
* Feedback on orientation informs best practice and there are better patient outcomes including patient safety.
* Focus on guidelines to ensure that there is a supportive and safe work environment for nurses before, during and after orientation.
* Satisfaction with orientation and proper preparation for nursing increases compassion satisfaction and support for competence improves professional nursing practice.
Benefits
* When there is orientation, assignments for the new nurses are similar to that of the more experienced nurses (Ashton, 2015).
* There is higher likelihood of nurses staying longer in their current positions when there is orientation and this is beneficial as it reduces nurse turnover, which often worsens the problem of nurse shortage. Furthermore, these nurses adjust better to their positions and especially in cases where there is open communication feedback (Ashton, 2015).
* During the transition period for new nurses there is a need to facilitate work adaptation and orientation programs support this and are essential to improve the quality of care and care outcomes (Ashton, 2015).
* There is better quality of care and job satisfaction, especially w...