Core category | Category | Subcategory |
Life after employment | Living in the area of my choice | Live in a city in which I want to live |
Live in a town wherein I can easily go to my parents’ home | ||
Living a work-centered life | Live in the best city for the job | |
Live in a place with good access to work | ||
Focus on work rather than vacations | ||
Balancing work and personal life | Struggles to balance living alone for the first time and working life | |
No troubles in my personal life | ||
Working in an ideal work environment | Work in the desired job conditions and with the desired benefits | |
Work in a hospital that is the right size and has the right functions for my needs | ||
Busy at work, but can take vacations | ||
Working irregular shifts | Cannot finish my work on time and stay late to work | |
Can imagine the pattern of shifts | ||
Work the night shift with longer hours | ||
Physically adapting to shift work | Do a lot of night shifts | |
No physical problems | ||
Adaptation to work | Learning nursing skills with which I have no experience | Acquire skills in which I am inexperienced during work in a clinical setting |
The nursing skills in which I am inexperienced are not immediately available | ||
Concerns about nursing skills that I did not experience in a practical setting | ||
Able to perform all nursing skills experienced during clinical practice training related to daily living assistance | ||
Acquiring nursing skills on the job | Learn nursing skills in a supportive environment | |
Independence is achieved step by step by having senior nurses check the skills of each individual | ||
Learning my job under the guidance of my seniors | Preceptors provide one-on-one guidance | |
Assigned to a patient while being accompanied by a senior nurse | ||
Senior nurses provide gentle guidance | ||
Senior nurses will reach out to you to provide advice | ||
Learning job fundamentals through novice training | Participate in pre-employment training | |
Participate in a defined novice training program | ||
Participate in group work at different stages in the novice training | ||
Facing the rigors of the job | May be scolded or frustrated | |
Have a hard time with the job | ||
Continue with work-related studies | ||
| Persevere even when assigned to a department I don’t want to be in | May be assigned to a department other than the one I want after I get the job |
Work hard in the department to which I am assigned, even if it is not the department of my choice | ||
Even if I am not assigned to the department I want to work in, don’t give up and wait for the day when I will be assigned to it | ||
Practicing nursing tasks that I did not have much experience with as a student | Experiencing nursing tasks that are not often experienced in clinical training | |
Lots of record-keeping and paperwork | ||
Delivering nursing care for patients with confidence | Care for patients with a variety of illnesses | |
Feel confident in my ability to deliver nursing care for my patients | ||
Adaptation to the workplace | Nurses working together as a team | Nurses work together and support each other as a team |
Collaboration with other professions for the benefit of the patient | ||
Working in a good work culture | Work in an environment with good relationships and atmosphere among staff | |
Work with nurses who are good to their patients | ||
Familiarizing with the nursing community | Join an established community and become a little bit more involved | |
The place of employment is the hospital in which I performed my clinical practice, so I know it well | ||
Be able to work well with others in the department after employment | ||
Nurses take breaks with each other | ||
Work in an environment where I don’t know anyone | ||
Working with more strict senior nurses | There are some scary senior nurses | |
Some nurses behave differently when in front of patients and when with other nurses | ||
Being treated as a fellow nurse, not a student | Some nurses are cold to students and don’t teach them much | |
Even nurses who are cold toward students may have different attitudes toward other nurses | ||
Working together with fellow nurses in friendly competition | Comparing yourself to other nurses with the same level of experience | |
Become friends with your fellow nurses | ||
If I don’t fit in, the nursing department will be there to help me | The entire nursing department has created an environment to avoid novice nurses quitting | |
If you do not feel comfortable in the department to which you are assigned after employment, you can transfer to a different department | ||
Career foundation building | Going through phases and becoming independent | Stand alone in work according to your own abilities |
The level of work will get higher and higher | ||
Overcoming the novice period | Once you’ve learned some of the work responsibilities, you’ll be more comfortable in your daily work life | |
Getting through the first year | ||
Manage to do the work despite the difficulties | ||
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| Continue to be a nurse and not quit the job |
Use the experience of frustration as a strength to get through the novice period | ||
Spend your novice year like senior nurses did | ||
Developing expertise in the desired area | Work in the field of my choice | |
Working in an environment of high-level specialty care | ||
Much knowledge and skills are acquired | ||
Working in a high-level and demanding environment | ||
Practice the kind of nursing I want to do | ||
Busy department with a lot of work to do | ||
Work in a department that suits me | ||
Orienting one’s career while in the workplace | Work with open-minded seasoned nurses | |
Looking at the reality of my post-employment career and considering my future career |