A longitudinal, mixed methods investigation of newly qualified nurses' workplace stressors and stress experiences during transition.

Aim: To investigate transition in newly qualified nurses through an exploration of their stressors and stress experiences during their first 12 months postqualifying.

Background: Globally, thousands of new nurses qualify annually. They are crucial for the profession and healthcare service delivery.

Expert Nurses' Perceptions of the Relevance of Carper's Patterns of Knowing to Junior Nurses.

This study explored with expert nurses in the UK how nursing wisdom can be developed in new and junior nurses. Carper's patterns of knowing and Benner's novice-to-expert continuum formed the theoretical framework. Employing a constructionist research methodology with participant engagement in co-construction of findings, data were collected via 2 separate cycles comprising 4 consecutive sessions followed by a nationally advertised miniconference.

Evaluation of how a curriculum change in nurse education was managed through the application of a business change management model: A qualitative case study.

Background: Curriculum changes are a regular feature of nurse education, yet little is known about how such changes are managed. Research in this arena is yet to emerge.

Objective: Evaluation of how a curriculum change in nurse education was managed through the application of a business change management model.

Contemporary nursing wisdom in the UK and ethical knowing: difficulties in conceptualising the ethics of nursing.

This paper's philosophical ideas are developed from a General Nursing Council for England and Wales Trust-funded study to explore nursing knowledge and wisdom and ways in which these can be translated into clinical practice and fostered in junior nurses. Participants using Carper's (1978) ways of knowing as a framework experienced difficulty conceptualizing a link between the empirics and ethics of nursing. The philosophical problem is how to understand praxis as a moral entity with intrinsic value when so much of value seems to be technical and extrinsic depending on desired ends.

Failing a student nurse: a new horizon of moral courage.

The factors preventing registered nurses from failing students in practice are multifaceted and have attracted much debate over recent years. However, writers rarely focus on what is needed to fail an incompetent pre-registration nursing student in their final placement. This hermeneutic study explored the mentor experience of failing a pre-registration nursing student in their final placement.