The cultural-ecological orientation of graduate nurses (novice) in medical-surgical nursing.

摘要

The aim of this research was to understand the process of clinical reasoning and decision-making and the impact that trajectory of experience has on the decision-making of graduate nurses by investigating the clinical practice of 10 novice nurses. An ethnographic interpretive approach was used to study the clinical practice of novice nurses in medical-surgical nursing. An in-depth interview was conducted following the periods of observation. The findings of this research demonstrate that the graduates who participated in this study were instrumental in creating a cultural-ecological orientation to their practice, and inherent in their practice was a highly developed perceptual awareness of the individual needs of patients and their families, which resulted in a close bond with their patients.