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- Title
Impact of Healthy Work Environments on New Graduate Nurses’ Environmental Reality Shock.
- Authors
Kramer, Marlene; Brewer, Brewer B.; Maguire, Patricia
- Abstract
Do healthy work environments (HWEs) facilitate new graduate transition into professional practice in hospitals? Are such environments related to a decrease in Environmental Reality Shock? Experienced nurses in 17 Magnet hospitals completed the Essentials of Magnetism II© (EOMII©) instrument that measures health of unit work environments. New graduates (N = 468) were then tracked with modified versions of the EOMII© from immediate post hire to 4, 8, and 12 months post hire to ascertain degree of Environmental Reality Shock. New graduate nurses have extremely high anticipations of unit work environments that would enable delivery of quality patient care. HWE is the most-significant variable in Environmental Reality Shock, number of related Issues and Concerns, and perceptions of quality of patient care. Suggestions of how to improve quality of unit work environments are offered.
- Subjects
ARIZONA; MATHEMATICAL models; ANALYSIS of variance; AUTONOMY (Psychology); CHI-squared test; CLINICAL competence; CONCEPTUAL structures; CORPORATE culture; STATISTICAL correlation; EMPLOYEES; EXPERIENCE; HOSPITAL wards; HOSPITALS; WORKING hours; JOB satisfaction; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL quality control; MULTIVARIATE analysis; NURSE-physician relationships; NURSES' attitudes; NURSING services administration; PROFESSIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCALE analysis (Psychology); SCALES (Weighing instruments); STATISTICS; WORK environment; THEORY; DATA analysis; GRADUATES; THEORY-practice relationship; EDUCATIONAL attainment; REPEATED measures design; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2013, Vol 35, Issue 3, p348
- ISSN
0193-9459
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0193945911403939