Effects of shadowing and supervised on-the-job inductions on mental health nurses

摘要

Globally, there is a serious shortage of mental health professionals (Kakuma et al. 2011). Working conditions such as job stress are, in part, to blame. Across different fields of nursing, the average rate of nurse absenteeism is up to 58 % higher than that of the rest of the working population because of workload, work-related stress and burnout (Rajbhandary and Basu 2010). The process through which new mental health nurses are socialized in the workplace could be a key method of forestalling work-related stress as well as helping nurses' job performance and their experiences of the organization they work for. This study investigates the impact of inductions in mental health nursing.