Clare Hawker

TL;DR: The evidence suggests that transition interventions/strategies do lead to improvements in confidence and competence, job satisfaction, critical thinking and reductions in stress and anxiety for the newly qualified nurse.

TL;DR: Promoting physical activity in student nurses has the potential to increase self-esteem and life satisfaction and decrease the risk of anxiety and depression and further research is needed to establish whether this relationship is causal and exists in other student nurse populations.

TL;DR: A number of studies reported a V shaped pattern for autonomy, job satisfaction, and professional transition, and the overall impact of intervention programmes appears positive, irrespective of the intervention.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that nurses' understanding of the principles of asepsis could be improved by renewed emphasis during initial nurse education, greater opportunity for updating knowledge and skills post-qualification and audit of practice.

TL;DR: In this article, a sequential mixed-methods study explores learning and teaching approaches to aseptic technique in the pre-registration nursing curriculum, and explains the existing suboptimal practice and misconceptions that have been described in the few studies that have explored how a septic technique is undertaken by qualified practitioners.