Progress meetings: facilitating role transition of the new graduate.

Although the very best orientation will not fully eliminate new graduates' sense of anxiety, a successful orientation will guide the novice registered nurse to use these feelings constructively by promoting a sense of confidence, competence, and satisfaction. This article provides details and examples of how progress meetings can be a beneficial addition to an orientation template. Progress meetings offer an avenue to facilitate social support and clinical growth supporting the transition from new graduate nurse to independent staff nurse.

Use of mammographic screening by HIV-infected women in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS).

Background: Although HIV-positive women may be less likely than women in general to receive mammography due to socioeconomic disadvantage, HIV diagnosis may increase opportunities for medical interactions which encourage mammography.

Methods: HIV-positive (2,059) and HIV-negative (569) Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) participants reported ever/never history of mammography at baseline (in 1994, 1995) and, at each 6-month follow-up visit, if they had been screened since their last visit. National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data for 1994 were used to compare WIHS participants to U.