Career Progression Opportunities For NPs and Pas

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Identifier 005_RPS2018_poster_COE.pdf
Title Career Progression Opportunities For NPs and Pas
Creator Coe, Charity; O'Brien, Julie; Kendrick, David; Schindler, Andrea; Glasgow, Robert; Ray, David
Subject Health Promotion; Nurse Practitioners; Physician Assistants; Surgery Department, Hospital; Personnel Turnover; Career Choice; Career Mobility; Work Engagement; Job Satisfaction; Poster
Description The Department of Surgery employs over 70 Nurse Practitioners (NP) and Physician Assistants (PA) in a variety of roles across its 9 Divisions. Between Divisions, there lacks uniformity of annual evaluations or recognition of contributions by these Advanced Practice Clinicians (APC). University-wide, APCs do not have a career advancement track and limited faculty roles available. With over 500 APCs in University of Utah Health, this is a large number of individuals without a career advancement model. Our turnover rate for APCs is higher than we would prefer, and while our average APC in the Department has been with us for nearly 4 years, those who leave typically do so after just 2-3 years. Most APCs reach optimal proficiency at 18-24 months, so these losses shortly thereafter increases the burden on the system in both lost productivity and strain on the remaining team members.We are in an optimal position to look at retaining the talent we have and feel that providing recognition for professional contributions and advancement opportunities will improve APC fulfillment in their current roles.
Relation is Part of Resilience Poster Session - 2018
Publisher Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Date Digital 2018
Date 2018
Type Text
Format application/pdf
Rights https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/
Language eng
ARK ark:/87278/s65f34h2
Setname ehsl_ebp
ID 1400718
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s65f34h2
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