The Versant RN Residency Solution
The Versant RN Residency provides a prudent combination of content, structure, process and evaluation that are critical for successful new graduate RN transition to practice:
Comprehensive Educational Content Management: Versant provides more than 200 peer-reviewed learning modules (including case studies and applications designed to foster critical thinking) that cover nearly 200 Core and Specialty Competencies for new graduate RNs.
Clinical Immersion: Versant choreographs goal-oriented clinical experiences based on planned integration of learning and doing.
Performance and Outcomes Management: Versant assigns an experienced Performance and Outcomes Manager to each client hospital to walk you through each step in the RN Residency process from initial start-up to ongoing performance. Our employees ensure the difference between having great tools and knowing what to do with them.
Organizational Capacity Development: Versant’s entire process helps increase your organizational capacity. For example: our unique shared governance structure helps grow new leaders, while our “train-the-trainer” model helps you identify, train, and engage preceptors, mentors, debriefers, and subject matter experts.
Rigorous Research & Development: Versant’s team of doctorally prepared researchers and learning experts gather evidence and mine data to continuously improve the RN Residency.
Exclusive Delivery System: The web-based Versant Voyager System provides the structural framework necessary to manage a fully integrated RN Residency.
Evidence speaks: the Versant RN Residency accelerates competence and confidence in new graduate RNs
After only 18 weeks, trained observers report that Versant RN Residency graduates achieve Nursing Skills Competency ratings that are slightly above new graduate comparison groups who have been in professional practice for nearly a year and a half (17.1 months). Self-reported Self Confidence Scores for Versant RN Residency graduates show similar rapid acceleration. The positive implication of these outcomes on the delivery of quality care, nursing job satisfaction, and turnover intent are well documented with more than 10 years of longitudinal data.
The Versant RN Residency delivers predictable outcomes
The Versant RN Residency is an 18-week long, outcomes-validated educational and clinical immersion program that transforms and transitions new graduate RNs into safe, competent nursing professionals. Versant defines a set of standards based upon an outcomes-validated set of competencies, teaches to those standards, monitors and manages adherence to those standards, and objectively evaluates - by use of quantitative and qualitative measures – success in achieving the demonstrated competencies.
The Versant RN Residency employs a highly choreographed “train-the-trainer” model administered through an innovative shared governance structure. Our evidence-based approach helps expand the existing educational capacity of hospitals while building nurse leaders through active engagement. Adopting Dr. Patricia Benner’s Novice-to-Expert Framework, our clinical and didactic immersion program is designed to provide new graduate RNs with the right information in the right sequence:
• Structured, goal-oriented clinical experiences
• Planned integration of knowledge and application to practice
• Novice to expert precepting with looping
• Formal and structured mentoring
• Facilitated debriefing and self care sessions
• Clear expectations, transparency, and accountability
Cumulative impact on organizational development
A nurse’s career path begins with a successful first onboarding experience. Nurses who do not quickly achieve competency – as defined by Benner – do not have successful onboarding experiences. Organizational development is defined through the collective impact of many such individual nurse experiences. This concept helps illustrate why turnover is so expensive – it literally resets the clock on your ability to provide the highest quality care. The longer the Versant RN Residency is in place, the larger the percentage becomes of your overall nursing workforce that has been trained to provide the highest quality of care.