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Strengthen Your Ambulatory Nursing Workforce with HealthImpact

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HealthImpact is recruiting Southern California health systems to enroll nurses into Cohort 4 of the California Registered Nurse Ambulatory Specialty Transition-to-Practice/Apprenticeship Program.

A longtime HASC partner, HealthImpact is a state-designated nursing workforce center committed to helping solve the critical nurse shortage. This eight-month program, designed as a workforce solution, helps health systems upskill and retain registered nurses (RNs) for ambulatory specialty practice while strengthening the capacity of participating clinics.

Nurse apprentices complete 1,260 hours of employer-paid, on-the-job training and 200 hours of supplemental instruction grounded in ambulatory nursing standards.

As a participating health system, your organization can:

  • Expand your talent pipeline by preparing new graduates and RNs transitioning into ambulatory specialty roles.
  • Improve retention by providing nurses with structured specialty training and support as they transition into practice.
  • Invest in workforce development through competency-based education integrated directly into the clinical work environment.
  • Drive measurable clinical improvement: Every learner completes a quality improvement proposal that identifies and focuses on an opportunity within their clinic, translating learning into meaningful improvements in care delivery and operations.
  • Build long-term ambulatory capacity to meet the growing needs of patients and communities.

To learn more about joining Cohort 4 of the ambulatory specialty program, contact Owen Metzger, MBA, PMP, at [email protected].