Expertise in Nursing Practice: Caring, Clinical Judgment and Ethics

The relationship of nursing work environment to empowerment

From beginning to end: how to do hermeneutic interpretive phenomenology: Elizabeth Smythe

The Hermeneutics of Postmodernity, Figures and Themes

Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism

Transitioning into independent professional practice may be a difficult and trying process for newly licensed nurses, who may be at risk for burnout and quitting their jobs. Issues related to new nurses' well-being at work may also impact their personal lives. Using thematic analysis within the framework of Total Worker Health, this study examined factors related to the overall work, safety, and health of newly licensed nurses that should be addressed in work environments to promote well-being and prevent burnout and attrition. The main component of Total Worker Health is to find and understand the relevant issues that lead to safety and health risks in the workplace and affect workers' well-being at work and home. The overarching concept of Balance between Work and Life included three main themes: Health, Work Environment, and Learning to Be (a nurse). These themes with their subthemes described the difficulties participants had in balancing the complex interactions of work conditions and social life changes during the transition from student to professional nurse. Participants identified new physical health problems, mental health challenges, physical violence, lack of support structures at work, and alterations in family and friend relationships. However, they also developed protective factors from new connections with coworkers. These findings showed that new nurses are vulnerable to many factors at home and work that affect well-being and may lead to burnout and attrition. Implications include interventions at work that focus on health promotion, group support, and safety risk prevention through occupational nurse management.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2165079919833701

Balance, Health, and Workplace Safety: Experiences of New Nurses in the Context of Total Worker Health:

Summary: The purpose of this study was to explore the phenomenon of the lived experience of nurses working with patients in the hospital setting and, with that information, identify meaningful themes and patterns of how their workplace environment impacts their sense of professional well-being and patient care. Content Outline:

Tullamora Thelma Diede

Papers

Balance, Health, and Workplace Safety: Experiences of New Nurses in the Context of Total Worker Health:

Professional Well-Being in the Lived Experience of Hospital Nurses

Professional Identity in the Lived Experience of Hospital Nurses