TY - JOUR
KW - Attitude of Health Personnel
KW - Career Mobility
KW - Cultural Diversity
KW - Curriculum
KW - Education, Nursing, Continuing/organization & administration
KW - Evidence-Based Medicine
KW - Humans
KW - Internship, Nonmedical/organization & administration
KW - Job Satisfaction
KW - Licensure, Nursing
KW - Los Angeles
KW - Nursing Administration Research
KW - Nursing Education Research
KW - Nursing Staff, Hospital/education/organization & administration/psychology
KW - Nursing, Practical/education/organization & administration
KW - Personnel Selection/organization & administration
KW - Preceptorship/organization & administration
KW - Program Evaluation
KW - Psychiatric Nursing/education/organization & administration
KW - Salaries and Fringe Benefits
KW - Total Quality Management/organization & administration
AU - S. M. Valente
AU - I. Wright
A1 - 
AB - Successfully recruiting licensed nurses to work in behavioral health is challenging. This article describes and illustrates methods one hospital successfully used to attract, orient, and mentor new graduate nurses to work in mental health. The New Horizons program included a paid internship for new graduate vocational nurses, a mental health curriculum, preceptorship, a state board review course, and a new graduate program. Since 2003, the program has recruited 37 new graduates for the unfilled licensed staff vacancies in mental health who continued their professional education and pursued degrees as registered nurses. The evaluations indicated that more than 100% of graduates rated the program as excellent as well as recommended it to their friends, and retention has been more than 90%. New Horizons graduates have received promotions; one has assumed a new role as a clinical resource nurse who teaches nursing orientation. All stakeholders including nurse management, patients, other disciplines, and coworkers have high praise for the program graduates. The program increased the cultural diversity of the mental health staff because the graduates included high percentages of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans and less than 10% of White Americans. Adult learning technologies were used including teaching with films, role-playing, case studies, reflective thinking, evidence-based practice, and group performance improvement projects. Research-based fact sheets were used for the course and continued education. These 1-page fact sheets help nurses apply the evidence to improve nursing practice.
BT - Nursing administration quarterly
C5 - Education & Workforce
CP - 3
CY - United States
DO - 10.1097/01.NAQ.0000278936.49491.7d
IS - 3
JF - Nursing administration quarterly
N2 - Successfully recruiting licensed nurses to work in behavioral health is challenging. This article describes and illustrates methods one hospital successfully used to attract, orient, and mentor new graduate nurses to work in mental health. The New Horizons program included a paid internship for new graduate vocational nurses, a mental health curriculum, preceptorship, a state board review course, and a new graduate program. Since 2003, the program has recruited 37 new graduates for the unfilled licensed staff vacancies in mental health who continued their professional education and pursued degrees as registered nurses. The evaluations indicated that more than 100% of graduates rated the program as excellent as well as recommended it to their friends, and retention has been more than 90%. New Horizons graduates have received promotions; one has assumed a new role as a clinical resource nurse who teaches nursing orientation. All stakeholders including nurse management, patients, other disciplines, and coworkers have high praise for the program graduates. The program increased the cultural diversity of the mental health staff because the graduates included high percentages of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans and less than 10% of White Americans. Adult learning technologies were used including teaching with films, role-playing, case studies, reflective thinking, evidence-based practice, and group performance improvement projects. Research-based fact sheets were used for the course and continued education. These 1-page fact sheets help nurses apply the evidence to improve nursing practice.
PP - United States
PY - 2007
SN - 0363-9568; 0363-9568
SP - 226
EP - 230
EP - 
T1 - Innovative strategies for nurse recruitment and retention in behavioral health
T2 - Nursing administration quarterly
TI - Innovative strategies for nurse recruitment and retention in behavioral health
U1 - Education & Workforce
U2 - 17607135
U3 - 10.1097/01.NAQ.0000278936.49491.7d
VL - 31
VO - 0363-9568; 0363-9568
Y1 - 2007
ER -