Preparing Nurses Who Stay: The APEX Advantage - Paperback

by Timothy Porter-O'Grady (Editor), Kathy Malloch (Editor), Kathy Scott (Editor)

Preparing Nurses Who Stay: The APEX Advantage provides an evidence-based framework for nursing transition to practice and retention.

Key Features

• • Transition-to-Practice Framework: Explores standardized, evidence-based approaches for supporting new graduates, advanced practitioners, and other nursing roles.
  • Preceptorship and Competency Development: Examines the essential role of effective preceptorship, data-informed competencies, and readiness for professional practice.
  • Policy-to-Practice Perspectives: Connects theoretical foundations with regulatory leadership, institutional initiatives, statewide infrastructure, and rural and urban partnership models.

Benefits

• • Practical Application: Includes case studies, reflective activities, adaptable templates, and toolkits that support immediate implementation.
  • Sustained Retention Strategies: Helps organizations create supportive transition experiences that build confidence, competence, and long-term nurse retention.
  • Systems-Level Insight: Equips readers to understand and influence the academic, clinical, regulatory, and policy factors shaping nursing transitions.

Ideal For

• • Nursing Students: Supports senior undergraduate and graduate students preparing to enter or advance in professional practice.
  • Academic Leaders and Faculty: Provides curriculum planners and educators with frameworks for aligning nursing education with workplace readiness.
  • Practice and Healthcare Leaders: Serves clinical leaders, preceptors, administrators, and policymakers working to improve onboarding, development, and retention.