Is Being There Enough? Postgraduate Nurse Practitioner Residencies in Rural Primary Care

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Examines the characteristics of rural and rural-serving postgraduate nurse practitioner (NP) residency programs, and the practices they use to determine if and how they enable recruitment, transition, and retention of NPs in rural primary care practice. Interviews were conducted with residency program directors, clinic personnel, and current and former NP residents, and analyzed to identify key themes and variations in program structure.

Louise Kaplan, Samantha W. Pollock, Susan M. Skillman, Davis G. Patterson

Journal of Rural Health, 39(3), 529-534

11/2022

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Health workforce · Health workforce education and training · Nurse practitioners and other advanced practice registered nurses · Primary care · Recruitment and retention of health professionals · Statistics and data