[PubMed] Returning nurses to the workforce: developing a fast track back program.

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Returning nurses to the workforce: developing a fast track back program.

Nurs Forum. 2006 Jul-Sep;41(3):125-32

Authors: Burns HK, Sakraida TJ, Englert NC, Hoffmann RL, Tuite P, Foley SM

TOPIC: Fast Track Back: Re-entry into Nursing Practice program. PURPOSE AND SOURCES OF INFORMATION: Describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of a state-of-the-art re-entry program facilitating the return of licensed nonpracticing RNs to the workforce through a quality education program that retools them for the workforce in the areas of pharmacology, skill development using the latest technology, practice standards, and nursing issues. The program consists of didactic content taught via classroom, Internet, skills laboratory, and high fidelity human simulated technology and a clinical component. CONCLUSIONS: The program is a mechanism that enables re-entry nurses to improve skills and competencies necessary to practice in today's healthcare environment.

PMID: 16879147 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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