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Heidi Jerpseth1, Kari Toverud Jensen1
1Faculty of Health sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway.
SAGE Open Nursing
|March 24, 2025
Summary
Newly graduated nurses often feel unprepared for their roles, struggling with clinical judgment and interdisciplinary teamwork. This can lead to frustration and a desire to leave the nursing profession early.
Area of Science:
- Nursing Education
- Healthcare Workforce Studies
- Professional Development
Background:
- The World Health Organization highlights a global nursing shortage.
- Newly graduated nurses risk early attrition from the profession.
- Limited understanding exists regarding early-career nurses' practical readiness and professional authority development.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore newly graduated nurses' experiences with practical readiness.
- To investigate the development of professional authority in the first year of nursing practice.
Main Methods:
- Qualitative study employing eight individual interviews with nurses nearing their first year of practice.
- Data collected between March and April 2022.
- Braun and Clarke's reflexive thematic analysis utilized for data interpretation.
Main Results:
- Two key themes emerged: 'Ready or not' and 'being responsible with or without decision-making authority'.
- Preparedness was linked to clinical judgment, skills, and knowledge integration.
- Nurses found interdisciplinary collaboration challenging and experienced a disconnect between responsibility and authority.
Conclusions:
- Nurses feeling prepared demonstrated integrated competence, applying skills and knowledge effectively.
- A disparity between perceived responsibility and actual professional authority caused frustration and feelings of being overshadowed.
- Addressing these issues is crucial for retaining newly graduated nurses.
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