Strategies for easing the role transformation of graduate nurses.

Full Abstract

Newly graduated nurses' role conception and role discrepancy changes that occurred during a 6-week newly graduated nurse hospital orientation program were explored. Newly graduated nurses' perceptions of ideal and actual nursing behaviors within three nursing role conceptions (professional, service, and bureaucratic) were identified. The difference between ideal and actual role conception scores was calculated (role discrepancy). Findings suggested that a comprehensive, structured hospital orientation program for newly graduated nurses eased the transition from nursing student to practicing nurse by decreasing role discrepancy.

Author information

Author/s: Young, Merriam E (ME); Stuenkel, Diane L (DL); Bawel-Brinkley, Karen (K);

Affiliation: Intermediate Intensive Care Unit, Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto, California, USA. merriamyoung(-atsign-)gmail.com

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Evaluation Studies; Journal Article

Journal: Journal for nurses in staff development : JNSD : official journal of the National Nursing Staff Development Organization (J Nurses Staff Dev), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: -2008 May-Jun; vol 24 (issue 3) : pp 105-10; quiz 111-2

Dates: Created 2008/06/05; Completed 2008/08/14;

PMID: 18525410, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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