NUR 4837 Chapter Notes - Chapter 24: Workplace Violence, Assertiveness
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24: making the transition from student to professional. Novice nurses often suffer reality shock when there are inconsistencies between the academic world and the world of work. Everything is just as the new grad imagined. The nurse comes into contact with conflicting viewpoints and different ways of performing skills, but lacks the security of having an expert available to explain uncertain or gray areas. Natives: when the new nurses decided they cannot fight the experienced nurses or admin, so they adopt they ways of least resistance. Runaways: the new nurses may choose another occupation or return to grad school. Rutters: they consider nursing just a job. Burned out: these nurses bottle up conflict until they become burned out. Compassion fatigue: the gradual decline of compassion over time as a result of being exposed to events that have traumatized their patients, these nurses create their own reality, with the attitude, just do.
