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- 1. Professional Nursing Practice
Concepts and Perspectives
Sixth Edition
CHAPTER 1
Beginning the Journey
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- 2. Factors in Society That Promote
the Nurse’s Return to School
• Societal changes
– Aging population
– Reimbursement practices
– More care delivered in community and
outpatient settings
• Diverse population
• New technology and scientific discoveries
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- 3. Factors in Society That Promote
the Nurse’s Return to School
• New diseases and environmental
problems
• Changes in perception of nursing as a
profession
– Men’s and women’s roles
– Increase in accountability and responsibility
• Average age of an RN increased
– 45.2–44.3 years
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- 4. Factors in Society That Promote
the Nurse’s Return to School
• Changes in perception of nursing as a
profession
– Entry into practice
– Shift from acute care
• Baccalaureate requirement for certification
• AACN 1996 position statement on
professional nursing
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- 5. Factors in Society That Promote
the Nurse’s Return to School
• Professional factors
– Nurses specialize in specific areas of practice
– Increased demand for specialty certification
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- 6. Professional Role Transitions
• Changes in nursing roles represent a shift
in the view of nursing
– Occupation to profession
• Transition from novice to expert
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- 7. Bridges’ Model of Transition
• Three Phases
– Ending Phase
– Neutral Zone
– New Beginnings
• Individuals move through all three phases
as they experience change
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- 8. Bridges’ Model of Transition
• Ending Phase
– Initial stage
– Must “let go”
• Within the ending phase are four
components:
– Disengagement
– Disidentification
– Disenchantment
– Disorientation
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- 9. Bridges’ Model of Transition
• Neutral Zone
– Individual has moved from the old to the new
– Change is accepted
• New role not yet internalized in
relationships and behaviors
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- 10. Bridges’ Model of Transition
• New Beginnings
– Final phase
– Acceptance of new knowledge, values,
attitudes, behaviors
• Challenged to keep moving forward and
not revert back to old ways
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- 11. Spencer and Adams’ Model of
Transition
• Seven Stages
– Losing focus
– Minimizing the impact
– The pit
– Letting go of the past
– Testing the limits
– Searching for meaning
– Integration
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- 12. Challenges for the RN Returning
to School
• Managing family and work
• Expense
• Opinions from peers
• Inner feelings of anger versus excitement
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- 13. Factors to Support Successful
Transition
• Choosing a mentor
– Sounding board
– Support and encouragement
• Support from family and friends
– Emotional support when there is self-doubt
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- 14. Overcoming Barriers
• Time management
– Organizing
– Planning
– Setting priorities
Balancing school, family, work, meals, sleep,
exercise, spirituality, and personal time
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- 15. Overcoming Barriers
• Money
– Tuition reimbursement
– Loans, grants, scholarships
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- 16. Overcoming Barriers
• Social supports
– Family, friends, classmates, faculty
– Networking with colleagues
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- 17. Overcoming Barriers
• Working with faculty
– Treat faculty with respect
– Remember your instructors have good days
and bad days
– Respect your instructor’s privacy
– Instructors have many different personalities
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