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Chapter 5: Working With Orientees

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This item record pertains to an excerpt from Staff Educator's Guide to Clinical Orientation, 3rd Edition, which is provided free of charge by the publisher.

About this book:

With all the changes in staffing in the past few years due to the pandemic, a high-quality onboarding process is even more important for retention and ensuring a new nurse's success.

In this fully revised third edition of Staff Educator's Guide to Clinical Orientation, authors Robin Jarvis, Amy J. Word-Allen, and Alvin Jeffery provide readers with all the tools they need to successfully develop a nursing and healthcare workforce.

Whether someone is new to leading orientation efforts or a seasoned nursing staff development specialist, this book will help readers:

·Understand the role of the preceptor in clinical orientation activities

·Incorporate regulatory and legal issues

·Understand and use the ADDIE model

·Analyze, design, and implement an orientation program

·Evaluate an individual's competency

·Conduct surveys and focus groups

·Manage orientee errors and personality conflicts

·NEW: Onboard travel nurses and float staff

·NEW: Accommodate generational differences

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Author Details

Robin L. Jarvis, MS, SPHR, GTML, is an expert in adult learning with over 25 years of experience in healthcare, high technology, retail, and consulting companies. Amy J. Word-Allen, BSN, RN, is currently employed with HCA Healthcare in the emergency department. She formerly worked in education, precepting, and onboarding roles. Alvin D. Jeffery, PhD, BC, CCRN, FNP-BC, is an Assistant Professor of Nursing and Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he studies how informatics solutions can help with clinical decision-making.

Sigma Membership

Non-member

Lead Author Affiliation

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Type

Book Chapter

ISBN

9781646481408

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Expert Opinion (nationally/internationally recognized)

Research Approach

N/A

Keywords:

Nursing, Employee orientation, Onboarding programs, Healthcare quality, Teaching models, Regulatory considerations, Evaluation tools, Precepting

Publisher

Sigma Theta Tau International

Version

Publisher's Version

Rights Holder

Copyright © 2025 by Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing - All rights reserved. This book is protected by copyright. No part of it may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher. Any trademarks, service marks, design rights, or similar rights that are mentioned, used, or cited in this book are the property of their respective owners. Their use here does not imply that you may use them for a similar or any other purpose.

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None: Professionally Edited Material

Acquisition

Publisher-submission

Date of Issue

2024

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