Transition to Professional Nursing Role Case Study – Nursing Assignment Help

Assignment Task

Supplementary Assessment Task Overview
Transitioning to professional practice is a critical phase for the novice Registered Nurse. Managing professional role requirements, organisational technologies and team dynamics while on shift can be challenging. This is often accompanied by changed personal circumstances, with graduates balancing shift work, working full time and socialisation with friends and family. The case study below highlights the professional and personal challenges you may face as a Graduate Registered Nurse.
Case Study Background
Stacey Nguyen is a Graduate Registered Nurse (RN) who is 9 weeks into her first graduate rotation at the local metropolitan, tertiary hospital. She is currently working on an orthopaedic ward which cares for surgical and trauma patients. For the first four weeks Stacey worked alongside her nurse preceptor, predominately rostered on morning shifts. Stacey has just completed her first five (5) night shifts yesterday morning, and is back on an afternoon shift today (Monday). Stacey is still trying to manage her roster and other commitments. She lives in a share house with 3 others and normally does a week of shopping and meal preparation. The past few weeks she has been so busy and tired that she has been eating a lot of takeaway. She normally plays netball once a week with her university friends and she is frustrated that she has missed the past 2 weeks of games due to work. Stacey normally visits her elderly mother twice a week and her mother has been phoning and saying she hasn’t seen Stacey enough and that she feels “lonely”. Her siblings live interstate.

On Shift

• Stacey has arrived 5 minutes prior to the shift starting. On arrival, she realises that he hasn’t worked with the Nurse-in-Charge but she
• knows most of the other nurses from her previous shifts. Her preceptor is not working today.
• Stacey feels a little nervous, but she knows one (1) of the patients she has been allocated from his recent night shifts and she is allocated a
• further three (3) patients, including a patient who will be discharged this afternoon and a new admission from ED.