Predictors of new graduate nurses' health over the first 4 years of practice.

Aim: To examine predictors of Canadian new graduate nurses' health outcomes over 1 year.

Design: A time-lagged mail survey was conducted.

Method: New graduate nurses across Canada ( = 406) responded to a mail survey at two time points: November 2012-March 2013 (Time 1) and May-July 2014 (Time 2).

Starting Out: qualitative perspectives of new graduate nurses and nurse leaders on transition to practice.

Aim: To describe new graduate nurses' transition experiences in Canadian healthcare settings by exploring the perspectives of new graduate nurses and nurse leaders in unit level roles.

Background: Supporting successful transition to practice is key to retaining new graduate nurses in the workforce and meeting future demand for healthcare services.

Method: A descriptive qualitative study using inductive content analysis of focus group and interview data from 42 new graduate nurses and 28 nurse leaders from seven Canadian provinces.

Starting Out: A time-lagged study of new graduate nurses' transition to practice.

Background: As the nursing profession ages, new graduate nurses are an invaluable health human resource.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate factors influencing new graduate nurses' successful transition to their full professional role in Canadian hospital settings and to determine predictors of job and career satisfaction and turnover intentions over a one-year time period in their early employment.

Design: A national two-wave survey of new graduate nurses across Canada.

Part 1: The influence of personal and situational predictors on nurses' aspirations to management roles: preliminary findings of a national survey of Canadian nurses.

Aim: To examine the influence of personal and situational factors on direct-care nurses' interests in pursuing nursing management roles.

Background: Nursing managers are ageing and nurses do not appear to be interested in nursing management roles, raising concerns about a nursing leadership shortage in the next decade. Little research has focused on factors influencing nurses' career aspirations to nursing management roles.

Part 2: Nurses' career aspirations to management roles: qualitative findings from a national study of Canadian nurses.

Aim: Our aim was to investigate direct-care nurses' interests in formal management roles and factors that facilitate their decision-making.

Background: Based on a projected shortage of nurses by 2022, the profession could be short of 4200 nurse managers in Canada within the next decade. However, no data are currently available that identify nurses' interests in assuming manager roles.