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Career development year in emergency nursing: using specific educational preparation and clinical support to facilitate the transition to specialist practice
This article outlines the development, implementation and evaluation of the Career Development Year (CDY) in the Emergency Department (ED) at Dandenong Hospital in Victoria, Australia. As a consequence of a shortage of emergency nurses, hospitals have recruited inadequately prepared nurses to staff their EDs. The resultant increase in stress of qualified and experienced emergency nurses has had a major impact on the retention of emergency nurses. The CDY aims to provide nurses with little or no experience in emergency nursing with supported entry into this area of specialist practice. The CDY is based on three factors identified as important in the transition to emergency nursing; knowledge, clinical support and professional development. By providing beginning emergency nurses with supported entry to a new and challenging clinical environment, the CDY has been an effective recruitment and retention strategy. In addition it has demonstrated that a committed ED team has the capability to teach and nurture the emergency nurses of the future.
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Nursing education in practiceVolume
4Issue
3Pagination
168 - 176Publisher
Churchill LivingstoneLocation
Edinburgh, ScotlandISSN
1471-5953Language
engNotes
Available online 17 December 2003.Publication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2003, Elsevier LtdUsage metrics
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