Clinicians and educators both need more realistic understanding of how prepared newly registered nurses are for practice.
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Clinicians and educators both need more realistic understanding of how prepared newly registered nurses are for practice.
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Hi May
This topic is crucial to the effective assilation of new graduate RNs into the clinical world. Support structures have to be put in place to enable the transition to be smooth and effective. With government cuts to health care spending, how these new RNs are assimilated into real clinical roles is at times affected and influenced by such factors far beyond than those inherent at the hospital management level. I think you will need to address these too in your well thought after study .
Regards
Stephen RN MACN
With such limited graduate nurse vacancies in the acute sector in the past couple of years the situation for a grad nurse seeking work outside this sector is woeful. Employers: GP surgeries, Aged Care facilities, private hospitals and other clinics are sympathetic in their rejection but are very sure that the grad nurse is next to useless without prior hospital employment. The public hospitals are equally inflexible requiring 12 month experience somewhere before being considered for casual employment. 800 hours split over 3 years in uni, in often less than suitable placements leaves the new nurse underprepared and unemployable. The whole system needs a shakeup: universities need to participate in the change that must happen to better prepare new nurses. I suggest a completes change, 3 years of academic work and a minimum 6 month paid internship, all nurses then can hit the ground running and compete for work on a more level playing field. I am fortunate to have been employed from day 1 however many of my colleagues have had such a poor experience that they have left nursing, never to return, and everyone just keeps on talking…