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Facing registration: The expectations and the unexpected
This paper reports on newly qualified nurses’ experiences of the transition from being a nursing student to becoming a registered nurse. The aim of the study was to ascertain how newly qualified nurses perceived their role transition in an Irish general hospital. Data were gathered using in-depth in...
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description | This paper reports on newly qualified nurses’ experiences of the transition from being a nursing student to becoming a registered nurse. The aim of the study was to ascertain how newly qualified nurses perceived their role transition in an Irish general hospital. Data were gathered using in-depth interviews with 12 nurses who were within one year of qualification. A grounded theory approach was used to generate, analyse and synthesise the data. The findings revealed that newly qualified nurses have specific needs, many of which are unrealised. The vast and increased workload, which involved less patient-contact and more non-nursing duties, came as a surprise to participants in this study. The expectation of in-depth knowledge, coupled with feelings of increased responsibility and compounded by relatively little experience did little to ease the transition to becoming a newly qualified nurse. There is a need to contextualise the transition to registration so that expectations of newly qualified nurses are realistic. Management and staff must remain cognisant of the fact that many newly registered nurses have relatively limited clinical experience at the time of registration. |
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