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Improving Onboarding And Role Transition For Advanced Practice Providers, Leighann Ebenezer

Nursing (graduate) Student Scholarship

BACKGROUND: APPs are increasingly being integrated into various health care settings and the role continues to gain popularity and utility as a solution to the shortage of physicians. Successful onboarding of APPs has been identified as an important factor in the role transition and integration of APPs into their team and organization.

PROBLEM: When hired, APPs are often not onboarded successfully to the detriment of the provider and the organization. Despite the evidence for comprehensive onboarding programs, APPs continue to receive insufficient onboarding that ignores their unique scope of practice.

METHOD: The Ottawa Model of Research Use, a knowledge translation …