[Integration of new nurses in nursing units in a university hospital]

(L'intégration des nouvelles infirmières dans les unités de soins d'un hôpital universitaire.)

Full Abstract

The study presented in this article raises the problems of the integration of recently graduated nurses in the hospital from the point of view of a culture difference between the two socialisation worlds: more reflexive standards of behaviour and culture in the schools (emphasis on analysis, knowledge, care actions argumentation...) and more instrumental ones in the hospitals (emphasis on efficiency, work organisation, operationality...). An enquiry by means of interviews with recent graduates from different schools (open, semi-open and closed questions) enables to successively analyse the skills they consider to have acquired at school, the ones they consider as required by the hospital and the differences they feel between hospital and school concerning the enhanced skills. The results show a significant discrepancy between the ideal of the interviewed nurses and the reality of their work within the institutional constraints of the hospital.

Author information

Author/s: Lanza, D (D); Pasche, G (G); Sechaud, L (L); Bosson, A (A); Mach, J (J); Paccaud, U (U);

Affiliation: L'unité de recherche de l'Ecole de Soins Infirmiers et de Sages-Femmes Le Bon Secours à Genève, Suisse.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: English Abstract; Journal Article

Journal: Recherche en soins infirmiers (Rech Soins Infirm), published in France. (Language: fre)

Reference: 2001-Jun; vol (issue 65) : pp 53-82

Dates: Created 2002/05/31; Completed 2002/07/19; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 12037997, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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