In a recent issue of the journal, you published an article about enhancing nursing students’ transition to workplace. The author mentioned that during transition, nurses frequently encounter role conflict, marginalization and burnout. These problems may lead to job dissatisfaction, intention to leave their job and also may interfere with quality of care they provide (1). In another article in t...

Objective Graduate entry to nursing programs are new to Australia. This paper reports on an analysis of students enrolled in an accelerated, pre‐registration, masters‐level nursing course in Melbourne, Australia. Design Quantitative surveys were used to gather data on a range of demographic characteristics and factors relating to students’ choice to undertake nursing. Setting The study was cond...

This approach made it necessary to define the role of each member of the team. Nurses became concerned about defining and retaining that which is essentially nursing and establishing nursing as a profession. Definitions, concepts and theories of nursing began to appear with in­ creasing frequency by writers such as Olivia Gowan, Dorothy Johnson, Virginia Henderson and others. The term nursing p...

Constantly experiencing limiting situations that hinder a professional practice coherent with its principles - of autonomy and advocacy of users' interests -, and often conditioned to experience moral distress, the nursing profession plays a prominent role in the current health model because it has the characteristic of managing the care rendered to users in a perspective of social inclusion, b...