The Transition Room
Helping New Graduate Nurses Enter the Bedside with Confidence, Clarity, and Clinical Readiness
The Transition Room is a simulation-based readiness experience designed to bridge the gap between nursing school and real-world bedside care through immersive practice, guided reflection, and intentional clinical preparation.
Built for new graduate nurses and designed to support the goals of hospitals, nurse leaders, and nursing education programs.
What Is The Transition Room?
The Transition Room is a simulation-based readiness and confidence-building experience designed to support new graduate nurses as they transition from nursing school into real-world bedside care.
While nursing school prepares students to pass exams, many new nurses enter clinical practice without the confidence, mindset, and intentional presence required to care for patients safely and compassionately. The Transition Room fills that gap.
Through immersive simulation, guided reflection, and practical bedside preparation, nurses learn how to think critically, communicate clearly, and care with intention, starting day one.
The Founder Cohort is now complete. We are currently accepting waitlist submissions for the next cohort.
What This Experience Builds
Clinical confidence through simulation-based practice
Intentional bedside care focused on safety and quality
Clear communication in high-pressure clinical environments
Emotional awareness and compassionate patient connection
Readiness for real-world bedside responsibilities
Confidence is built before the bedside. When nurses are taught to think intentionally, care becomes safer, clearer, and more compassionate from day one.
Closing the Gap Between Graduation and the Bedside
Nursing school prepares students to pass exams, but what prepares them to step into a patient's room with confidence, clarity, and composure?
For many new graduate nurses, the transition into clinical practice is filled with fear, self-doubt, and emotional disconnection. They may know the skills, but not how to be present at the bedside.
We see it every day. Nurses who are technically trained but unsure how to speak up, connect with patients, or anticipate what matters most in the moment. In that uncertainty, confidence and safety can be compromised.
The Transition Room exists to change that.
We provide a protected learning space where nurses build the mindset, presence, and readiness needed before habits are formed and before confidence is lost. When a nurse enters a patient's room grounded in skill and guided by compassion, everyone benefits, the patient, the team, and the nurse.
How We Measure Impact
- Self-reported confidence before and after participation
- Clinical communication readiness
- Decision-making confidence in simulated patient scenarios
- Participant feedback and reflective growth
- Instructor observation and engagement
Meet the Founder
Ora Yancy, MSN, MBA, BSN, RN is a nurse leader and mentor with over two decades of experience in acute care and bedside nursing environments.
She created The Transition Room after witnessing a consistent gap between what nursing school teaches and what new nurses are expected to manage in real clinical settings. Year after year, she watched talented, passionate nurses enter the bedside underprepared. Not because they lacked skill, but because no one taught them how to be present, confident, and intentional in the patient room.
Ora believes confidence is not something nurses should be expected to "figure out on the job." It must be taught, practiced, and protected before nurses step fully into patient care.
Her mission is simple: every new nurse deserves to walk into their first patient room knowing they are ready.
Confidence is built before the bedside. When nurses are taught to think intentionally, care becomes safer, clearer, and more compassionate from day one.
5 Days. 5 Pillars. One Transformational Experience.
Each session builds on the last — from clinical foundations to a full simulation day. Limited to 8 nurses.
Choose Your Enrollment Option
Two simple ways to secure your seat in the Founder Cohort.
Pay in Full
- Full access to all 5 sessions
- Simulation day included
- All materials and resources
- Certificate of completion
- No additional payments
Payment Plan
- $150 secures your seat today
- 3 additional payments of $149
- Full access to all 5 sessions
- Simulation day included
- Total investment: $597
Your seat is confirmed once payment or deposit is received.
How to Join the Waitlist
Join the waitlist to be notified when enrollment opens for the next cohort.
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Everything You Need to Know
Have questions about the next cohort or waitlist? Here are answers to the most common questions from participants and partners.
The Transition Room is designed for senior nursing students, recent nursing graduates, and new nurses with 0–2 years of bedside experience who want to build clinical confidence before or during their early career.
No. The Founder Cohort is now complete. We are currently collecting waitlist submissions for the next cohort.
You can join the waitlist by completing the waitlist form on this page. Once submitted, you will receive updates when details for the next cohort become available.
The next cohort dates have not been announced yet. Waitlist members will be notified first once the schedule and enrollment details are confirmed.
No. Whether you are a nursing student preparing to graduate, a recent graduate, or a new nurse still adjusting to bedside practice, this program is designed to support your transition into confident, intentional bedside care.
The program includes guided learning, real-world clinical discussions, communication practice, patient safety preparation, reflective growth, and hands-on simulation designed to help new nurses feel more confident and ready for bedside care.
Yes. The Transition Room includes simulation-based learning where participants can apply clinical thinking, communication, and bedside readiness skills in realistic patient care scenarios.
Each cohort is intentionally kept small to allow for meaningful discussion, reflection, personalized feedback, and hands-on learning. Exact seat availability for the next cohort will be shared once enrollment opens.
The program is held in person. Location details and preparation materials will be shared with accepted participants once registration for the next cohort opens.
Payment options for the next cohort have not been announced yet. Pricing, payment plans, and registration details will be shared with waitlist members once enrollment opens.
The Transition Room is an independent program created by Ora Yancy, MSN, MBA, BSN, RN. While we welcome partnerships with hospitals and nursing education programs, the program operates independently.
Who This Is For
New graduate nurses preparing for bedside practice
Nurse residents seeking more confidence and readiness
Nursing schools interested in transition support
Hospitals and educators focused on safe, confident onboarding
Join the Waitlist
The Founder Cohort is now complete. Submit your information below to join the waitlist for the next cohort.
We typically reply within 24 hours.
Your Transition Starts Here
8 seats. 5 sessions. One experience that changes how you show up at the bedside. The Founder Cohort begins April 17, 2026. Applications are open now. This inaugural Founder Cohort will help shape the future of The Transition Room.
Only 8 nurses will be accepted into the Founder Cohort. Once seats are filled, applications will close.