Implementing a Nursing Internship Program

Implementing a nursing internship program.

The Ottawa Hospital developed an evidence-based nursing internship program to meet the challenges of new graduates. The literature suggests manychallengesthattheyface during their transition from student to new graduate, with a turnover estimated as high as 60%. The program provides support to new graduates by offering opportunities for growth and autonomy, leading to active participation as te...

Evaluation of Nursing Management Internship: A Mixed Methods Study

Introduction: Enabling nursing students in clinical skills such as management is only possible through creating enough opportunities for obtaining and practicing such skills in a clinical environment. Therefore, given the importance of this issue and lack of information and backgrounds on the subject, this study aimed to evaluate management internship of nursing students through both qualitativ...

Feasibility of implementing a surgical student internship program in South Korea

PURPOSE Despite recommendations for introducing student internships (SI) in undergraduate medical education in Korea, the feasibility of surgical SIs has not been demonstrated in the Korean context. We thus identified tasks that could be performed by surgical student interns in a Korean education hospital. METHODS The opinions of surgery clerkship directors of medical schools nationwide, rega...

Occupational Therapy Internship Pilot Program

Program Disparities in Unmatched Internship Applicants

Predoctoral internship represents an important capstone in the training of clinical and counseling psychologists. However, in the past decade there has been growing concern over the number of applicants to internship who have not been matched to an internship site. We investigated the scope of the internship match problem by assessing program-level contributions to the number of unmatched inter...