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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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Published in:Nurse education today 2007-11, Vol.27 (8), p.840-847
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subjects Adaptation, Psychological
Anger
Attitude of Health Personnel
Clinical Competence - standards
Communication
Employment - psychology
Fear
Frustration
Grounded Theory
Guilt
Hospitals
Hospitals, General
Humans
Interprofessional Relations
Ireland
Licensure, Nursing
Medication Errors - nursing
Medication Errors - prevention & control
Medication Errors - psychology
Newly qualified nurses
Nurse's Role - psychology
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing education
Nursing Methodology Research
Nursing roles
Nursing Staff, Hospital - education
Nursing Staff, Hospital - psychology
Nursing, Supervisory
Perceptions
Roles
School to work transition
Self Efficacy
Stress
Students, Nursing - psychology
Studies
Surveys and Questionnaires
Time Management - psychology
Work roles
Workload - psychology
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