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Transition to Practice

Each training course on this website aims to provide support for newly licensed nurses transitioning to practice or to licensed nurses transitioning to a new practice setting. The goals of these courses are: 1) to improve retention of new nurses; 2) to improve patient safety by assisting new nurses in transitioning from task orientation to critical thinking; and 3) to increase new nurses’ comfort level with prioritizing care and applying the techniques introduced in their educational programs.

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All of these training courses are free and we encourage you to invite others to visit this website. You may choose to take any course that interests you independent of the other trainings offered on this website. If you wish to receive free nursing Contact Hours, you must complete the entire training course for which you are seeking Contact Hours, receive a passing score on the quizzes, and finish the evaluation. Please see the User Manual for additional information about nursing Contact Hours. Once you meet the minimum requirements, you may request to receive nursing Contact Hours on the course transcript page. If you do not wish to receive nursing Contact Hours, you will have the option to print your course transcript to confirm completion of a course. You may save your progress and complete each training course in multiple sessions.

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Communication in Healthcare

The Communication in Healthcare course describes the importance of effective communication in healthcare settings and provides critical thinking exercises that allow nurses to practice applying a variety of communication techniques, including SBAR, OARS, TeamSTEPPS^©, and DESC.

Safety in Healthcare

The Safety in Healthcare course describes the importance of safe patient care, offers strategies for engaging patients and families in care processes, and provides critical thinking exercises that allow nurses to practice identifying examples of adverse situations, human factors associated with errors, and safe team practices.

Evidence-Based Practice

The Evidence-Based Practice course describes the importance of evidence-based practice (EBP), offers strategies for applying EBP, and provides critical thinking exercises to practice finding sources of evidence within their practice setting, identifying facilitators and barriers to EBP implementation, and applying EBP to clinical scenarios.

Preventing and Responding to Violence in the Workplace

The Preventing and Responding to Violence in the Workplace course describes the scope of workplace violence in healthcare, defines and provides examples of workplace violence behavior, compares risk assessment tools and prevention programs, and provides strategies for improving personal safety, implementing de-escalation techniques, and reporting incidents.

Safety and Professionalism in Community-Based Nursing Practice

The Safety and Professionalism in Community-based Nursing Practice course uses a variety of content formats to describe the importance of and provide strategies for effective communication and maintaining professionalism to promote safety while working in the community. Appendix 1 provides further resources for trainers for incorporation of virtual educational resources into the design of transition to practice efforts to enhance the learner experience.

Appendix 1: Further Resources for Trainers

The Virtual Reality Appendix of the Safety and Professionalism module provides ideas and examples to support the incorporation of virtual educational resources into the design of transition to practice efforts to enhance the learner experience. This brief overview will provide foundational knowledge to support utilization of virtual educational resources in training development.