Nursing Practice Readiness Tool
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Topics: Nursing, Skill Development, Workforce, Performance Improvement, Orientation and Onboarding, Recruitment and Retention, Quality
Registration and Member Toolkit
The Nursing Practice Readiness Tool (NPRT) is a customizable, automated survey developed by Center research staff at the request of our members. The tool is designed to capture both new graduate and experienced nurses’ perceptions of new graduate nurse performance across 36 key competencies.
Assessing performance on both clinical and non-clinical skills, this tool enables nurse educators and leaders to identify opportunities for enhancing new graduate nurse proficiency and benchmark performance against the Center’s database of national survey results.
Survey Highlights
- Fully automated administration and analysis, eliminating paperwork and spreadsheet manipulation
- Ability to administer the survey to all nursing staff of select units
- Less than 15-minute survey completion time
- Results enable detailed examination of 36 key new graduate nurse competencies from both experienced and new graduate nurse perspectives
- All survey responses are confidental
- Benchmarking by unit and respondent characteristics such as broad clinical area, respondent tenure, preceptor status, and new graduate nurse degree type
Implementation Assistance
Detailed overview of the survey’s methodology
Step-by-step guide for bringing the survey to your institution
Nursing Practice Readiness Tool survey questions
Implementation resources, including sample e-mails, unit talking points, and incentives
Getting Started
To conduct the survey at your hospital, an institution-specific link is required. CNOs may request their link by sending an email to nec@advisory.com.
Contact Us
For assistance with the survey administration process, members are encouraged to contact the Nursing Executive Center at nec@advisory.com or 202-266-6855.
Screenshot of the Nursing Practice Readiness Tool
