Erratum: Organizational and Practice Outcomes of a Post-Baccalaureate Registered Nurse Residency Program.

In the July/August 2024 issue of Journal for Nurses in Professional Development in the article by Zeman et al., “Organizational and Practice Outcomes of a Post-Baccalaureate Registered Nurse Residency Program,” the authors described the Office of Academic Affiliations Resident Competency Assessment (OAA RCA) tool but also included a description of the VHA Office of Nursing Services Resident Competency Assessment (VHA RCA) tool described in Barrett et al. (2024). Although the authors’ organization uses both tools, the OAA RCA tool is primarily used in the Post-Baccalaureate Registered Nurse Residency program. To reflect this change, the following reference is no longer applicable to the article: Barrett, B., Toyinbo, P., Couig, M. P., Chavez, M., & Powell-Cope, G. (2024). Assessing nurse competency in the Veterans Health Administration registered nurse transition-to-practice residency program: Item pool content validation. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 39(1), E1–E7. 10.1097/NCQ.0000000000000740. In addition, to reflect the removal of the Barrett et al. (2024) reference, the last paragraph on p. 202 and the sentence on p. 203 beginning with “Since the initiation of the RCA,” should read: To evaluate competency, nurse residents and their preceptors complete the OAA Resident Competency Assessment (OAA RCA) (Ayvazyan et al., 2022) at the beginning of the residency and then at 3, 6, and 12 months. The OAA RCA tool measures nurse residents’ skills competency in 22 core clinical areas following CCNE standards. This assessment tool was validated by academic and clinical experts (Ayvazian et al., 2024). While future psychometric testing is needed on the OAA RCA tool, the tool has been effective in assessing nurse residents’ observed nursing practice on a scale of 1 (Unsafe to perform the skill) to 6 (Performs the skill safely without guidance) (Ayvazyan et al., 2022). The remaining four possible ratings are: 5-requires guidance less than 25% of the time; 4- requires guidance 25-50% of the time, 3-requires guidance 50-75% of the time, and 2-requires guidance more that 75% of the time (Ayvazyan et al., 2022). Results from the Casey-Fink Survey and the OAA RCA are used to reveal areas for growth that need more attention, such as certain nursing skills, or for exposure to topics of concern which the PB-RNR manager can address in real time. Both scales are administered electronically during their didactic sessions. Analyses were completed in Microsoft Excel where means of each scale were calculated. Since the initiation of the OAA RCA, all nurse residents have met standardized competencies of organization-wide and unit-specific skills based on preceptor observation. Most nurse residents were rated a “6” on all 100 performance criteria, while the remaining residents were rated at least a “5,” meeting the goals of the program to provide safe, quality care. The authors apologize for this error.