Deciding if Home Care Is Right for Me

Abstract

As the location of health care delivery continues to shift from inpatient settings into the community understanding the experience of the home care workforce is important. Challenges related to recruitment and retention of nurses in home care has resulted in agencies hiring new graduate nurses. While Extensive research exists exploring experiences of new graduates in hospital settings, experiences of new graduates in home care are not well understood. Given the contextual differences between hospital and home care, research exploring new graduate nurses’ experiences in the home care sector is warranted. A phenomenological approach was used. “Deciding if home care is right for me” emerged as a way of understanding new graduate nurses’ experiences in home care.

Newly graduated nurses’ orientation experiences: A systematic review of qualitative studies

“…Of the 13 studies chosen for this systematic review, six were conducted in the USA (Delaney, 2003;Glynn and Silva, 2013;Moore and Cagle, 2012;Morales, 2014;Spiva et al, 2013;Zinsmeister and Schafer, 2009), three in Australia (Evans et al, 2008;Lea and Cruickshank, 2005;Ostini and Bonner, 2012), one in Oman (Al Awaisi et al, 2015), one in Japan (Gregg et al, 2011), one in Ireland (Hollywood, 2011) and one in Canada (Patterson et al, 2013). The number of the newly graduated nurses as participants in these studies varied from 5 to 21 newly graduated nurses and the total was 121 newly graduated nurses.…”

“…Staff on the wards were experienced as supportive (Glynn and Silva, 2013;Gregg et al, 2011;Ostini and Bonner, 2012;Spiva et al, 2013) and relationships with them and clients were seen as an important part of creating confidence and passion for nursing (Patterson et al, 2013). Also, help from clinical educators was appreciated (Glynn and Silva, 2013;Ostini and Bonner, 2012).…”

“…Getting support from the preceptor Many of the newly graduated nurses felt that they got support from their preceptor (Glynn and Silva, 2013;Gregg et al, 2011;Hollywood, 2011;Moore and Cagle, 2012;Morales, 2014;Patterson et al, 2013). Some even saw that the preceptor was the most important actor in their orientation process (Glynn and Silva, 2013;Moore and Cagle, 2012).…”

“…Some even saw that the preceptor was the most important actor in their orientation process (Glynn and Silva, 2013;Moore and Cagle, 2012). At best, preceptors created a nurturing and supportive environment for learning (Glynn and Silva, 2013;Patterson et al, 2013;Spiva et al, 2013). A positive relationship with the preceptor was seen to have an impact on creating a positive experience of the whole transition (Delaney, 2003;Glynn and Silva, 2013;Zinsmeister and Schafer, 2009) and orientation process (Morales, 2014), and helping to progress in orientation (Delaney, 2003;Spiva et al, 2013;Zinsmeister and Schafer, 2009).…”

“…Newly graduated nurses experienced learning a lot of new practical skills from preceptors (Glynn and Silva, 2013;Hollywood, 2011;Moore and Cagle, 2012;Patterson et al, 2013;Spiva et al, 2013). These were for example separating work from home (Glynn and Silva, 2013;Moore and Cagle, 2012), clinical skills (Glynn and Silva, 2013;Spiva et al, 2013), communicating with patients (Glynn and Silva, 2013) and time management (Moore and Cagle, 2012).…”