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How to Transition from Bedside Nursing to Leadership Roles

Diversity Nursing

The journey from bedside Nursing to leadership can feel like a leap into uncharted territory. Whether you're looking to become a Charge Nurse, Nurse Manager, or Director of Nursing, this guide provides actionable steps to help you navigate the shift successfully. Acting as a preceptor or mentor for new Nurses.

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Honor Preceptors for the Difference They Make

Nurse.com

How does a nurse’s limited experience and fear evolve into expertise and confidence, one may ask? Preceptors! Preceptors are the key to a smooth transition to competence for students, new grads, or experienced nurses moving from one specialty to another. So why would a nurse take on this added responsibility?

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7 Nurse Recruitment and Retention Strategies

Relias

Participants reported higher satisfaction with orientation and onboarding compared to those without a formal nurse residency program. Organizations with a nurse residency program provide new nurses with additional support while also engaging experienced nurses as preceptors — fostering new connections and a healthy, collaborative culture.

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National Nurses Week 2023: Chief Nurse Carolyn Booker Endured 'Trial by Fire' as a New Leader

Health Leaders | Nursing

When I graduated from nursing school, nurse leaders were more clinically inclined and by the time I became a nurse leader, it was just at the beginning of nurse leaders being incorporated into the operational aspect. We also have assigned preceptors and mentors. And for me at that time, it was trial by fire.

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7 Nurse Recruitment and Retention Strategies

Relias

Participants reported higher satisfaction with orientation and onboarding compared to those without a formal nurse residency program. Organizations with a nurse residency program provide new nurses with additional support while also engaging experienced nurses as preceptors — fostering new connections and a healthy, collaborative culture.

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Celebrating Black Nursing Leaders: Karen McNulty

Minority Nurse

With almost 23 years in the field of nursing, McNulty has been able to help other nurses, both novice and experienced, to evolve into their roles on the busy medical-surgical/telemetry unit, now transitioning to step-down. Before I knew it, my nurse manager asked me to precept recent grads and nurses new to the hospital.

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Essential Qualities and Characteristics of a Good Nurse

Relias

Nurses who show they truly care about their patients — and how well they perform their jobs — have a greater likelihood of advancing, making compassion a key indicator for nurse success. 2 – Excellent communication skills Strong communication skills are an important nurse characteristic.