The Versant RN Residency
Developing & Sustaining Professional Nursing Organizations
Nursing organizations within hospitals face enormous pressures to deliver safe, high quality patient care while containing costs. Achieving excellence and stability in your professional nursing workforce dramatically impacts your ability to achieve positive clinical outcomes and both patient and physician satisfaction, while responsibly addressing organization expense and minimizing pay-for-performance risk.
Structural shortage of registered nurses
“Despite an easing of the nursing shortage due to the recession, the U.S. nursing shortage is projected to grow to 260,000 registered nurses by 2025. A shortage of this magnitude would be twice as large as any nursing shortage experienced in this country since the mid-1960s.” (Buerhaus, Auerbach, & Staiger, 2009)
Additionally, an aging nursing workforce combined with an aging patient population will contribute to ongoing and severe shortages of nurses.Hospitals that invest in a structured, disciplined, evidence-based approach to quickly and efficiently transition new graduate RNs to safe and effective practice will be best equipped to minimize the profound impact the nursing shortage will have on their ability to provide safe and effective patient care.
Bridging the gap between nursing education and practice
“A major finding of our (Carnegie Foundation) study is that a significant gap exists between today’s nursing practice and the education necessary for that practice.” (Benner, Sutphen, Leonard, & Day, 2010)
The Versant RN Residency successfully bridges the gap by preparing new graduate RNs for the complexity of today’s nursing practice.