Involvement in Promoting the Development of Newly-Graduated Nurses

Abstract

This research focused on the socialization of newly-graduated nurses and their clinical compentencies for nursing. The growth and development of newly-graduated nurses was viewed in terms of socialization, the improvement of their practical nursing capabilities, and in the way that newlygraduated nurses are perceived. Forms of involvement in promoting the growth and development of newly-graduated nurses were clarified retroactively.

At two facilities of an acute hospital provided by the local government, a group interview was conducted with the use of a semi-constructive questionnaire targeting nurses who had been working for a period of two years since completing their basic nursing education, and the data with regard to “their actual experience in the first year of socialization, the improvement of their clinical competencies for nursing, and the different types of effective involvement” were collected. Word-for-word data was encoded into types of action, and then categorized.

All 6 nurses whose consent I obtained were female of average age of 23.3 years. They belonged to the general ward of the department of internal medicine, or the department of surgery. They responded that there was a full-time worker in charge of training in the ward where all the nurses worked.

As forms of involvement in promoting the growth and development of newly-graduated nurses, “the teaching of practical nursing skills for the carrying out of duties,” “the formation of a constructive learning culture,” “approval,” “attention to important circumstantial information,” “nursing safety,” “motivation,” “the nurturing of socially responsible nurses,” and “role models” were selected.

I believe that a focus on the socialization of newly-graduated nurses and the clarification of their place within society and nursing will be useful for the training of newly-graduated nurses in the future.