Competency Intelligence
Through competency intelligence, evidence-based readiness indicators, and expert nursing consultation, GCPD helps organizations identify, develop, and validate workforce readiness while reducing administrative burden.
What We do:
•Nurse onboarding tools
•Competency management
•Readiness-to-Practice Indicators (RPI)
•E-learning curriculum
•Mobile clinical resources
•Competency tracking platform ("Engage")
Our Happy Clients
The Problem We Solve
Hospital organizations often rely on large platforms for workforce management, forcing complex, duplicative, and expensive processes.
Common challenges include:
•One-size-fits-all content that lacks organizational relevance
•Per-user licensing models that increase costs as programs grow
•Costly customization, implementation, and ongoing maintenance
Accelerating Nurses’ Readiness to Practice
The Center for Professional Resources helps hospitals accelerate the timeline new nurses need to practice independently. GCPD resources can help new nurses move into productive staffing EARLIER:
Readiness timeframe with & without GCPD resources:
VS.
8-10 WEEKS WITH
15-25 WEEKS WITHOUT
Our Solution: Nurse Development Resources
Galen Center for Professional Development delivers fully customized competency management within an intuitive online platform that integrates seamlessly with your existing hospital infrastructure.
Our platform enables hospitals to:
•Customize onboarding and annual competencies to organizational, clinical, and regulatory requirements
•Link directly to internal resources and external content (e.g., Mosby’s, Lippincott, HealthStream)
•Support accreditation requirements and advanced achievements such as Magnet® designation—without redundant documentation
Readiness to Practice Indicators
An evidence-based tool to guide the preceptor and orientee with measurable and specific criteria, and as a determinant of readiness to practice.
Demonstrate individual, continuous professional development while eliminating duplicative documentation for accreditors and regulators.
The Latest from the Center for Professional Development
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August 2023
Readiness to Practice Indicators:
Accelerating New Graduate Nurses
Toward Independent Practice
Readiness to Practice Indicators (RPIs) are an evidence-based tool intended as a determinant for independent practice that synthesizes the scope and standards of nursing practice with
a focus on how to manage a patient assignment.
Ready to Accelerate Your Nurses Development?
Contact the Center for Professional Development today to find the right resources for your staff!
USC Verdugo Hills Hospital
Our partnership has helped us transform the nurse residency experience into a more structured, evidence-based, and professional role-driven transition to practice program. By integrating the Readiness to Practice Indicators, clinical competencies, with intentional preceptor support, we have been able to better guide new graduate nurses toward confidence, clinical judgment, and professional role clarity as they move into independent practice. Galen has helped us build a program that reflects the very heart of our intent: to prepare new graduate nurses as confident, accountable professionals rooted in nursing as both a discipline and a profession.
Leah Korkis, MSN, RN, AGCNS, NPD-BC
Director of Clinical Education and Nursing Excellence
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University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
Our organization is captivated by how easy the Nurse Development Resources electronic platform (Engage) is to navigate. This tool supports me in my Internal Driver role to promote standardization and accountability with nurse leaders, preceptors and RN’s assigned to use system. The design provides a transparency that allows me to easily track RN progress and quickly identify areas that need immediate attention.
Thanks for a great product!
Carrie Hamilton, MSN, RN, CCRN, Nurse Professional Development
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
Our organization was searching for a new platform to document in real time the progress of our onboarding program for nurses. The Engage platform offered us the ability to tailor the orientation process to each staff member but maintain the integrity of the program. The GCPD staff provided incredible support during our transition process.
The team at GCPD also facilitated our creation of a platform that met our needs as a diverse organization.
Ashley Pond, MSN, RN-BC, Nurse Professional
Development Specialist
UMC Health System
Galen has provided an evidence-based tool that has enhanced our orientation process for nurses. Having this has allowed for open communication for all involved while being a platform to promote positive conversations during the transition period. The modules have been very well received! We have an 8-hour day, and nurses verbalized they are interactive and engaging to do. GCPD has transformed the method by which we assess competency in our organization. We have successfully transitioned from paper “skills checklists” to true competency assessment and documentation. Our users are so pleased with the ease of function, site accessibility, and support of the GCPD platform.