Capstones as Transitional Experiences

Hitting the Floor Running: Transitional Experiences of Graduates Previously Trained as Enrolled Nurses

The purpose of this study was to explore the transitional experiences of graduate nurses who had previously trained as enrolled nurses. A small survey design was utilised to collect data using in-depth interviews. Two themes emerged from the data, ‘values dissonance’ and ‘role adjustment’. Results indicate that the transition from student to registered nurse is as stressful and labile for this ...

DEBT AS A CONTROL DEVICE IN TRANSITIONAL ECONOMIES : The Experiences of Hungary and Poland

Reducing bottlenecks: professionals’ and adolescents’ experiences with transitional care delivery

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to describe the interventions implemented in a quality improvement programme to improve transitional care and evaluate its effectiveness in reducing bottlenecks as perceived by professionals and improving chronically ill adolescents' experiences with care delivery. METHODS This longitudinal study was undertaken with adolescents and professionals who pa...

Discrete Mathematics as A Transitional Course

CS educators have paid a great deal of attention to Discrete Mathematics over the past several decades. Although there have been many suggestions for improving this course, it seems to us that the real purpose of Discrete Mathematics as a transitional course has been long forgotten. We believe that the most important objective of this course is to let students be familiar with the format and st...

Transitional Justice as Global Project: critical reflections

This article critically reflects on the ways in which the global project of transitional justice is channelled or streamlined in its scope of application. Using the categories of when, to whom and for what transitional justice applies, it argues that transitional justice is typically constructed to focus on specific sets of actors for specific sets of crimes. This results in a fairly narrow int...