How Experience and Personal Growth Affect the Desire to Continue in the Profession amongst New Graduates

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to clarify the factors which influence the desire of new graduates to continue nursing, and examine the support resources available to them. New graduates were interviewed, and the interviews transcribed, seven months after having started working. The interviews were then examined in order to understand the factors which influence the desire of them to continue in the field, and the support resources available to them.

As a result, the factors which influence the desire of them to continue nursing were as follows: ① A distrust of the reality and the future, ② A interplay between resignation and continue nursing, ③ The ability to make growing power as a result of ascertaining the reality. The available support resources were that the senior nurses accepted the puzzle of them concerning lack of the practice ability and feeling a mental factor, and urged to convert them into advanced power. From their relations, new graduates acquired materials to advance to their own painful experiences, and found the meaning of the process and the obtained value newly.