Assessment of Challenges in Transition of New Graduate Nurses to Clinical Work Areas in Selected Governmental Hospitals in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, 2014

Kediro, Gamachu (2014) Assessment of Challenges in Transition of New Graduate Nurses to Clinical Work Areas in Selected Governmental Hospitals in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, 2014. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.

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Abstract

Background: Healthcare organizations require a stable, highly trained and fully engaged nursing staff to provide effective levels of patient care. Nurses have served as advocates for a better, safer, more humanistic health care system, and for public policies that promote the health of the nation throughout the profession’s history. The healthcare system is becoming increasingly complex; the nurse of the future will face a highly challenging healthcare delivery environment. Therefore, the nursing profession elsewhere continues to be concerned with the process of transition of new graduate nurses to into the world of clinical practice. Objective: The objective of this study is to assess the transition of new graduate nurses from education to practice area and the Challenges in transition of New Graduate Nurses to Clinical Work Areas Methods: Institution based cross sectional study design was used on 227 graduate nurses. Simple random sampling technique was used in this study. The data was gathered using self administered questionnaire. The collected data was entered using Epi info version 3.5.4; the entered data was analyzed using SPSS version 21.0 Results: Hundred twenty nine (56.8%) of the respondents reported that they received orientation upon employment. One hundred thirty seven (60.4%) of the respondents were agreed with the concept “staff nurses felt students as part of health care team.” Only seventy eight (34.4%) of the respondents agreed that they received orientation from their university or college upon graduation about challenges that might face them in their clinical work area. one hundred twelve (49.3%) of the respondents agreed that, nurse students received equal opportunity and recognition as other department’s students in clinical practice. One hundred seventy eight (78.4%) of the respondents agreed that they face difficulty to integrate theory into practice first at work, while the overall challenge was 121 (53.3%). VIII Conclusion: Majority (93%) of the respondents acknowledged the educational system that they passed through as very good and/or good. On the contrary, the way practical education was being delivered was not satisfactory; nurse students did not receive equal opportunity and recognition as other department’s students in clinical practice. One hundred seventy eight (78.4%) of the respondents complained that they had faced difficulty to integrate theory into practice first at work. Recommendation: There is a need to establish joint special mentorship program for about 3 to 6 months by FMOH and FMOE to new graduate nurses before their placement into clinical work area so as to enable NGNs to undertake their role effectively in contributing to health care services

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General) R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services R Medicine > RT Nursing
Divisions:	Africana
Depositing User:	Vincent Mpoza
Date Deposited:	12 Jul 2018 10:29
Last Modified:	12 Jul 2018 10:29
URI:	http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/7350

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