Group debriefing: an approach to psychosocial support for new graduate registered nurses and trainee enrolled nurses.

From: Contemporary Nurse | Date: December 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

The transition from student to an accountable health professional is a difficult time for the novice nurse and can result in significant anxiety, stress and poor socialisation into the nursing profession. A strategy applied at a major tertiary teaching hospital to address transitional issues for novice nurses is that of group debriefing sessions. This qualitative study used focus groups to explore the effectiveness of these debriefing sessions for new graduate nurses and trainee enrolled nurses. The results demonstrated that the sessions provided nurses with a ...

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