Readiness to Practice Indicators: Accelerating New Graduate Nurses Toward Independent Practice

Academic institutions and hospitals want the same outcomes: safe, practice-ready nurses, but each use different tools to evaluate practice-readiness. Successful transition-to-practice programs aimed at closing the academic gap require thoughtful and actionable collaboration between academic and practice settings with consideration of using mutual evaluation tools. Readiness to Practice Indicators (RPIs) are an evidence-based tool intended as a determinant for independent practice that synthesizes the scope and standards of nursing practice with a focus on how to manage a patient assignment.
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