CJCCN: Volume 37, Number 2

Sydney Gnenz, BScN, RN, Hana Sherif BScN, RN, Matthew J. Douma, PhD, RN, Joan Harris, MHSc, RN, Christopher Picard, MN, RN, and Carmel L. Montgomery, PhD, RN

Abstract

Purpose: The aim of this study was to provide an overview of post-graduate adult critical care nursing education programs across Canada.

Background: Critical care nurse shortages have created an influx of novice nurses entering intensive care units (ICUs).

CJCCN: Volume 37, Number 2

William Tessier, MSc, RN, Martin Charette, PhD, RN, Isabelle Ledoux, PhD, RN, Mélanie Lavoie-Tremblay, PhD, RN, Xavier Giroux, MSc, MBA, RN, and Sabrina Blais, MSc, RN.

Abstract

Background and purpose

Healthcare facilities are employing various strategies to combat nursing shortages, including recruiting newly graduated nurses (NGNs), defined as registered nurses within their first two years of clinical practice following completion of their initial nursing education,

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