Structured Reflective Practice: Professional Identity Formation and Workforce Outcomes in Prelicensure Nurse Externs.
BACKGROUND Professional identity in nursing (PIN) is a concept used to describe how a nurse thinks, acts, and feels. PIN begins forming in the prelicensure program and is critical to registered nurse (RN) outcomes. PROBLEM At one organization, nurse externs (NEs) had inconsistent RN conversion rates. The NE program d...