A National Perspective on New Nurse Graduate Transition to Practice: Secondary Analysis of the National Student Nurses' Association 2021 New Graduate Survey

ABSTRACT

While role modeling is a teaching-learning experience to show the novice the skills and behaviors of the professional nurse, orientation to the new workplace generally includes a period of preceptorship as new graduates transition. There are currently two accrediting organizations the ANCC Practice Transition Accreditation Program® and the CCNE Entry-to-Practice Nurse Residency Program for post-baccalaureate nurse residency programs (ANCC, 2020;CCNE, 2021). Magnet® organizations are required to demonstrate their new graduate transition programs with six elements, including program leadership, organizational enculturation, development and design, practice-based learning, nursing professional development support, and quality outcomes. Mentorship is a longer term relationship, a component of practice-based learning that is integrated into the nurse residency program to facilitate continuing professional development (ANCC, 2020). Since the onset of the pandemic in 2020, there have been major disruptions in the implementation of nurse residency programs.