Nursing professional develop-ment practitioners are critical to nurse residency program (NRP) de-velopment, implementation, and evaluation. Conducting a program evaluation provides an opportu-nity to collect and analyze data on identified goals and outcome mea-sures and determine if the program components need to modified or changed. Health care organiza-tions need a systematic process for evaluating NRPs to ensure effective-ness of program delivery, provide evidence to demonstrate program value to the organization, report achievement of program outcomes, and for continuous quality improve-ment. With the growing importance of offering high-quality NRPs, nurses in professional development must critically consider the type of data required to demonstrate program value and use the best tools to col-lect outcome data. This article dis-cusses a variety of data collection tools that can be selected to mea-sure NRP outcomes.
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