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J Nurses Staff Dev. 2012 Jan-Feb;28(1):24-6. doi: 10.1097/NND.0b013e318240a6f3.

Nursing department orientation: are we missing the mark?.

Journal for nurses in staff development : JNSD : official journal of the National Nursing Staff Development Organization

Julie Marie Kennedy, Amy A Nichols, Louis P Halamek, Julie M R Arafeh

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  1. Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA. [email protected]

PMID: 22261902 DOI: 10.1097/NND.0b013e318240a6f3

Abstract

Hospitals routinely provide orientation for the new nurses they hire. The evolution of nursing practice is not reflected in the current teaching methods of nursing orientation. The authors examine the past 60 years of nursing department orientation and assert the need to move toward more effective and innovative teaching strategies.

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