Exploring the Effect of COVID-19 on Graduate Nursing Education.

Graduate nursing students are both nurses and adult learners. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many found themselves working on the frontlines while maintaining their studies and confronting challenges in their professional, educational, and personal lives. Changes in work environments, including redeployments, increased hours, and furloughs, challenged their work-study balance.

Exploring novice nurse practitioner job satisfaction.

Background: With the continued increase in new nurse practitioners expected over the next 5 years and beyond, more individuals will experience nurse practitioner role transition. It is beneficial to nurse practitioners, patients, and the health care industry to understand factors relating to job satisfaction during role transition.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to contribute to the understanding of the transition period of new nurse practitioners by exploring demographics and job satisfaction during the first 6 months to 2 years of practice.