View this on-demand recording of our virtual presentation on the experience-complexity gap to identify strategies and best practices to address this emerging challenge.

Nurse leaders today are facing a new challenge: “the experience-complexity gap.” As retirement-age nurses exit the workforce while the influx of new nurses continues to grow, the net effect is a decline in the overall experience of the nursing workforce. At the same time, the patient population is becoming older and more complex, with more chronic comorbidities. Simply put, more novice nurses must deliver more complex care. If left unaddressed, the experience-complexity gap will widen, and could put clinical quality and safety at risk.

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Part 1: Introduction

Read more about the experience tipping point in the Experience-Complexity Gap publication.

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Part 2: Teach novice nurses more effectively

Learn two strategies to teach novice nurses more effectively with the goal of helping them achieve competency faster.

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Part 3: Redistribute experience across the organization

Create deliberate career pathways to select units and care sites to better balance nursing experience across the organization.

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Part 4: Differentiate practice for experienced nurses

Learn two strategies to differentiate practice for experienced nurses with the goal of helping them achieve competency faster.

Related resources:

• Patricia Benner’s stages of clinical competence
• Appendix
• The Nurse Preceptor Toolkit
• Bridging the Preparation-Practice Gap, Volume I
• Bridging the Preparation-Practice Gap, Volume II