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- Title
Perceptions and experiences of nurses transitioning to primary care: A qualitative study.
- Authors
Koh, Hui Min Dana; Lee, Ching Siang Cindy; Anna, Christie; Lau, Ying
- Abstract
Background: Transitioning to primary care is a highly stressful process for nurses due to the diverse roles and responsibilities required. Despite the global shift of health services requiring more nurses in primary care, there is a dearth of literature regarding their transition experiences. Aim: To explore the perceptions and experiences of nurses transitioning to primary care. Methods: A qualitative descriptive design was used. Nineteen nurses from five primary care clinics in Singapore participated in the semi‐structured interviews. These interviews gathered the experiences of nurses transitioning to primary care. Interviews were analysed using thematic analysis through an inductive and theoretical approach. Rigour was established through an audit trail, peer examination and member checking. Findings: Three themes of Idealistic assumptions, Role realignment and Seeking enlightenment emerged. These themes described the nurses' initial disorientation to the unfamiliar primary care setting; their attempts to fit in by embracing the new environment and suppressing their true emotions; and the support received coupled with their ownership to learn. Implications for nursing policy: The findings highlight the importance for nurse managers to promote positive transition experiences through the modification of existing support programmes and organizational cultures. To further enhance the nurses' retention within primary care, it is imperative for nurse educators and policy makers to revise the nursing curricula, primary care nursing career framework and recruitment campaigns at the national level. This brings clarity to the misconceptions in the roles and expectations required of nurses in primary care.
- Subjects
SINGAPORE; LABOR mobility; PRIMARY nursing; WORK environment; OCCUPATIONAL roles; NURSES' attitudes; SOCIAL support; VOCATIONAL guidance; WORK; RESEARCH methodology; INTERVIEWING; QUALITATIVE research; CONCEPTUAL structures; EXPERIENTIAL learning; HOSPITAL nursing staff; SOUND recordings; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; NURSES; THEMATIC analysis; JUDGMENT sampling; DATA analysis software; SOCIAL role change
- Publication
International Nursing Review, 2022, Vol 69, Issue 2, p201
- ISSN
0020-8132
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/inr.12691