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Mentorship Through Storytelling Program, Debra Marie Perry
Mentorship Through Storytelling Program, Debra Marie Perry
Theses and Graduate Projects
The Mentorship Through Storytelling Program began in response to an urgent need to reduce registered nurse (RN) turnover rates and improve nurses’ satisfaction on a medical surgical unit in a Midwestern Hospital. The unit was challenged to hire, integrate, and retain a multigenerational team of RNs. Guided by Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring, the Mentorship Through Storytelling Program was initiated in the fall of 2018 after doing a broad literature review and adapting the Academy of Medical Surgical Nurses’ Mentorship Program to include the concepts of storytelling, mentoring, and caring. Digital recordings of five expert nurses’ oral histories (stories) …
New Graduate Nurse Orientation Program, Darcie L. Thies
New Graduate Nurse Orientation Program, Darcie L. Thies
Theses and Graduate Projects
The purpose of this project is to create a new nurse orientation program. The project provides socialization, mentorship, organizational context, and information that is crucial for a new graduate nurse to successfully integrate into the IHS healthcare team. It is critical for all new graduate nurses to be socialized and acculturated into their practice environments. This is particularly true when a nurse is hired to work in an environment that has a very specific cultural context, such as Pine Ridge Hospital, located on the Pine Ridge lndian Reservation in South Dakota. lnformation for this project was gathered through a literature …