Relationships between Newly Employed Young Nurses and Their Senior Colleagues: A Phenomenological Study

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Background: The adaptation processes of newly employed young nurses are adversely affected by the environments in which they are exposed to unfriendly behaviors. Therefore, realizing the young nurses’ relationships with their colleagues is important to improve their adaptation processes.

Objectives: To understand the core of newly employed young nurses’ experiences, thoughts and feelings regarding relationships with their senior colleagues during the first six months of their work life.

Methods: This study with a descriptive phenomenological qualitative design was conducted between April 2021 and August 2021, in a university hospital in Izmir, with 14 newly employed young nurses chosen using the purposive sampling technique. In-depth interviews were conducted through video conferences. Transcripts of the interviews were analyzed according to Colaizzi’s Technique, and also Watson’s Theory of Human Caring was employed so as to reach the essence of the experiences in the process of forming the main themes of the study.

Results: The relationship between newly employed young nurses and senior colleagues of them consists of three main themes and two subthemes: main themes are determined as; “caring/positive pproaches”, “incivility behaviors”, “insufficient support”. Subthemes are determined as “supportive and developing approach”, “being accepted and being cared”.

Conclusion: The outcomes of the study indicated that newly employed young nurses find supportive and developing approaches of the preceptor nurses and experience positive occurrences in the transition process demonstrated the existence of the supportive relationship; on the other hand unsupportive and incivility behaviors of their senior colleagues and managers demonstrated the existence of negative relationship. In order to the prevent newly employed young nurses being exposed to negative colleague approaches in the transition process, strategies based on Watson’s Theory of Human Caring can be developed at the institutional and national level.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Colleague Relationship
• Newly Employed Young Nurse
• Transition Process
• Watson’s Human Caring Theory

İşe Yeni Başlayan Genç Hemşirelerin Kıdemli Meslektaşları ile İlişkileri: Fenomenolojik Bir Çalışma

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Giriş: İşe yeni başlayan genç hemşirelerin uyum süreçleri, arkadaşça olmayan davranışlara maruz aldıkları çalışma ortamlarından olumsuz etkilenmektedir. Bu nedenle, işe yeni başlayan genç hemşirelerin deneyimledikleri meslektaş ilişkilerinin bilinmesi uyum süreçlerinin iyileştirilmesi açısından önemlidir.

Amaç: İşe yeni başlayan genç hemşirelerin, çalışma yaşamlarının ilk altı ayında kıdemli meslektaş ilişkileri ile ilgili deneyimlerinin, düşüncelerinin ve duygularının özünü anlamaktır.

Yöntem: Araştırma, tanımlayıcı fenomenolojik nitel tasarımda, Nisan-Ağustos 2021 tarihleri arasında İzmir’deki bir üniversite hastanesinde amaçlı örneklem yöntemiyle seçilen 14 işe yeni başlayan genç hemşire ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Derinlemesine görüşmeler video konferans yöntemi ile yapılmıştır. Görüşme dökümleri Colaizzi’nin tekniğine göre analiz edilmiş ve çalışmanın ana temalarının oluşturulması aşamasında deneyimlerin özüne ulaşmak için “Watson İnsan Bakım Kuramı” kullanılmıştır.

Bulgular: İşe yeni başlayan genç hemşirelerin, kıdemli meslektaşlarıyla olan ilişkileri üç ana tema ve iki alt temadan oluşmaktadır: ana temalar; “sevecen/olumlu yaklaşımlar”, “nezaketsiz davranış”, “yetersiz destek”; alt temalar;“destekleyici ve geliştirici yaklaşım”, “kabul görme ve önemsenme” olarak belirlenmiştir.

Sonuç: Çalışmanın sonuçları, işe yeni başlayan genç hemşirelerin, geçiş sürecinde özellikle rehber hemşire yaklaşımlarını sevecen ve geliştirici bulması ve olumlu deneyimler yaşamasının destekleyici ilişkinin varlığını; öte yandan yönetici ve kıdemli meslektaşlarının nezaketsiz davranışlarına maruz kalmasının ve yardım görmemesinin olumsuz ilişkilerin varlığını ortaya koymuştur. İşe yeni başlayan genç hemşirelerin, geçiş sürecinde olumsuz meslektaş ilişkilerine maruz kalmasının önlenmesi için kurumsal ve ulusal düzeyde Watson’ın İnsan Bakım Kuramı’na temelli stratejiler geliştirilebilir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Geçiş Süreci
• İşe Yeni Başlayan Genç Hemşire
• Meslektaş İlişkisi
• Watson İnsan Bakım Kuramı

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