NURSE SERIES - Guiding Growth: Mentorship, Onboarding, & Clinical Advancement in Home Infusion Nursi

Nurse Bytes: Lead the Way: Mentoring & Precepting with Purpose (October 20)

This session offers practical tips for nurse preceptors and mentors in guiding nurses across all experience levels. Participants will explore strategies to foster clinical confidence, reinforce standards of care, and build meaningful professional relationships that elevate team performance and patient outcomes.

1. Describe the differences between preceptors and mentors.
2. Discuss common tools/training used to equip mentors and preceptors.
3. Explain how to encourage and recognize mentors, preceptors, and mentees in order to create a sustainable cycle.

Nurse Necessities: Onboarding New Nurses: Covering All the Bases (October 21)

This session provides nurse leaders a structured approach to onboarding new home infusion nurses, focusing on clinical readiness, safety standards, and patient-centered care. Participants will explore strategies to build confidence, foster connection, and ensure a smooth transition into the field through mentorship and clear expectations.

1. Describe the preparation of newly hired nurses prior to orientation.
2. Discuss orientation planning, to include field shadowing, competency evaluation and continuous communication.
3. Explain how a well planned and organized orientation plan contributes to nurse retention.

Nurse Bytes: Next-Level Nursing: Cultivating Advanced Skills in Home Infusion Nurses (October 22)

This session equips home infusion nurse leaders with strategies to foster advanced clinical and critical thinking skills among their nursing staff, driving excellence in patient care. Participants will explore coaching techniques, competency mapping, and growth pathways that empower nurses to grow.

1. Describe how cultivating advanced skills in home infusion nurse leaders to safe, effective, and patient-centered care in increasingly complex home environments.
2. Discuss advanced skills to include Vascular Access mastery, complex infusion therapies, documentation, and patient education.
3. Explain how opportunities for advanced certification programs, continuing education and mentorship, and preceptorship will enhance nursing retention.

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