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From School To Practice: The Meaning Of Nurses' Holistic Comfort, Michal Goodwin
From School To Practice: The Meaning Of Nurses' Holistic Comfort, Michal Goodwin
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Nurses entering the healthcare arena are likely to encounter a gap in preparation from school to practice. Despite well-intentioned transition programs, nurses struggle to keep up with the reality of demanding schedules, stressful work environments and non-nursing tasks, such as their own comfort. Holistic comfort, a well-known concept in patient care, offers an innovative approach to nursing education to sustain new nurses transitioning into practice. This phenomenological study explored how nurses who experienced holistic comfort in their schooling were able to use the same philosophical approach to transcend unavoidable difficulties early in their careers.
Newly practicing nurses from a program …