 Purpose
The program is designed to facilitate the transition of the beginner RN into the role and responsibilites of the professional nurse in the acute care setting.
Goals - Enhance graduate nurse confidence and competence to assure safe patient care.
- Enhance graduate nurse socialization into the organization
- Emphasize leadership and management skills and techniques
- Increase retention of the graduate nurse.
- Promote successful transition career advancement through provision of career path opportunities and continued professional development.
Education Sessions
The ADN Transition Program is modeled after the standardized University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) curriculum program. The program consists of a minimum of six monthly education sessions and ongoing educational opportunities throughout the new graduate's first year of practice.
Sessions - Bedside Assessment: Applying techniques from nursing curriculum into bedside practice.
- Navigating Systems Affecting Nursing Practice: Performance improvement processes, regulatory and legislative directives, and evidence based practice.
- Communications: SBAR, concepts in diversity and cultural competence, situational stress.
- Evidence Based Practice: Concepts in fostering adoption of best practices.
- Excellence: Utilization of MUHA Excellence Initiative.
- Developing an Individual Career Plan: Exploration of professional and educational advancement opportunities.
The ADN Transition Program Coordinator will serve as the primary mentor for the new graduates. Additionally, nurse mentors will be available throughout the new graduate's first year of practice. Contact
Weatherly Brice MSN, RN, BC ADN Transition Program Coordinator 843-792-6572 rogersw@musc.edu
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