The reverse is also true: a stable home life is critical if you lack stability in the workplace. Finally, if you feel like your home life is unstable (i.e., things feel chaotic or stressful at home), the stability of your workplace is even more important. The immature pattern recognition capacity of the new practitioner renders the NGNs response to this kind of clinical volatility challenging. Further to this, contexts where a patient’s clinical presentation is highly dynamic, or whose level of illness is such that there is a near certain likelihood of instability or decompensation (i.e., emergency or critical care), are precarious for the NGNs growing knowledge base. For this reason, floating (or being on a team that goes from unit to unit on a daily basis) does not provide for stability of patient population. Try to consider work that provides you with clinical situations that are stable, in a context that doesn’t constantly change. When you think about optimizing stability remember to think personally as well as professionally. Stability is a fundamental feature of homeostasis, which even from a purely bio-physiologic perspective is something all humans seek. Stability refers to how steady the circumstances and situation are for you during your transition experience essentially, stability refers to that which is unlikely to change or deteriorate. All rights reserved, used with permission. “Quality Workplace Factors for New Nursing Graduates” is © 2012 Judy Boychuk Duchscher. When all is in order, these elements put us in the driver’s seat of our own experience.įigure 16.7.1 Quality Workplace Factors for New Nursing Graduates ![]() ![]() ![]() There are foundational intersecting elements that feed into the new graduate nurse’s (NGN) initial experience in the workplace: (1) stability, (2) predictability, (3) familiarity, (4) consistency, and (5) success (Duchscher, 2012).
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