ABSTRACT
The study presented in this article raises the problems of the integration of recently graduated nurses in the hospital from the point of view of a culture difference between the two socialisation worlds: more reflexive standards of behaviour and culture in the schools (emphasis on analysis, knowledge, care actions argumentation...) and more instrumental ones in the hospitals (emphasis on efficiency, work organisation, operationality...). An enquiry by means of interviews with recent graduates from different schools (open, semi-open and closed questions) enables to successively analyse the skills they consider to have acquired at school, the ones they consider as required by the hospital and the differences they feel between hospital and school concerning the enhanced skills. The results show a significant discrepancy between the ideal of the interviewed nurses and the reality of their work within the institutional constraints of the hospital.
