Advice to new graduates: Get (at least) one year of psychiatric/mental health nursing experience before working in medical-surgical settings
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Mona M. Shattell, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: New graduates are often discouraged from working in psychiatric/mental health settings by “well-meaning” nurses and nursing faculty (especially non-psychiatric/mental health nurses and nursing faculty). Often these individuals advise new graduates that they should get at least one year of medical-surgical nursing experience before working in psychiatric/mental health nursing.
Advice to new graduates: Get (at least) one year of psychiatric/mental health nursing experience before working in medical-surgical settings
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 30(1), 63
- Language: English
- Date: 2009
- Keywords
- new graduates, nursing, mental health, psychiatric