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Novice Nurse Research

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For some novice nurses, the emotional experience of transition shock leads to an erosion of confidence created by academic and supervised clinical success. Lack of confidence magnifies the uncomfortable and stressful experience of being solely responsible for safe and ethical patient care (Nash, Lemcke, and Sacre, 2009). Even after participation in supervised nurse residency programs, novice nurses state the demands of the new role are “chaotic” (as cited in Kramer et al., 2009, p. 691). Attempting to acclimate to their new role, the novice nurse in chaos experiences confusion and self-doubt about themselves and their ability to function within the new role (Duchscher, 2009). This chaos, Duchscher (2009) declares, is exhausting and isolating.

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