Military to civilian nurse: Personal and professional reconstruction

Elliott, Brenda; Chargualaf, Katie A.; Patterson, Barbara J.

doi:10.1111/jocn.13693

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“…However, over the past decade there has been a rise in suicidal behaviors among active duty and veteran following their time in the military. 41 In all three cases explored here, the victims were receiving active mental health treatment. Further research is needed to draw firmer conclusions.…”

Section: Significance Of Military Findingsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Exploring nurse suicide by firearms: A mixed‐method longitudinal (2003–2017) analysis of death investigations

Davidson

Deskins

et al. 2020

Nursing Forum

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Background: Previously it was noted that firearm use by nurses in suicide was changing. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention suicide dataset contains investigation narratives that no researcher has analyzed and may provide context to inform suicide prevention.Objective: Explore firearm deaths in nurse suicide. Second, test topic modeling techniques to analyze investigation narratives.Methods/Statistical Analysis: Mixed-method retrospective analysis of 739 nurse versus 94,838 nonnurse suicides. Odds ratios (OR) were calculated to determine relative incidence. After tokenization and stop word removal, Latent Dirichlet Analysis and Latent Semantic Indexing topic modeling techniques were applied.Topics were evaluated for clinical significance and content analysis performed.Results: Aim 1: Female nurses used firearms significantly less often than other females between 2003 and 2013 (OR: 0.71; p < .001; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 4.23%-9.83%). A rise in nurse firearm use occurred between 2014 and 2017; with rates now similar to nonnurse females (OR: 0.98; p = .7574; 95% CI: −2.68 to 3.49).Clinically relevant topics identified by topic modeling: preventable deaths, chronic pain, and job loss before suicide. Conclusions:From this research we know that work-related issues in nurse suicides by firearms center around chronic pain, substance use, and job loss. The codes tied to suicidal ideation, previous attempt and/or depression, represented preventable deaths because it is known that if a weapon is removed from the home in these situations a suicide can be aborted. The change in firearm use warrants nurse education regarding firearm safety and suicide prevention. Topic modeling holds promise in focusing analyses of suicide investigations.

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Section: Significance Of Military Findingsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Exploring nurse suicide by firearms: A mixed‐method longitudinal (2003–2017) analysis of death investigations

Davidson

Deskins

et al. 2020

Nursing Forum

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“…For nurse academics, less camaraderie meant less teamwork and individual rather than collective goals [19]. This is consistent with military service viewed as a lifestyle emphasising group rather than individual goals [21]. UK veterans also described a distrust of civilians that resulted from a perceived barrier between work and personal life [20].…”

Section: Difference Between Military and Civilian Employmentmentioning

confidence: 75%

“…This suggests that veterans may seek out future careers that relate to their previous military work experience, which seems a logical strategy for optimising skills transferability. Indeed, Israeli and US quantitative studies suggest that preparing to leave and developing transferable skills were important strategies for successful career transition [21,[28][29][30]. This is supported by a survey of US pharmacists that reported transitioning to a similar civilian role might be associated with a smoother transition [31].…”

Section: Successful Career Transitionmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…A crosssectional study identified that both more senior military rank and political skill moderated the degree of conflict experienced in constructing a civilian work identity [37]. The process of opening up to new opportunities was also reported in nurse focused US qualitative studies, which was about accepting the differences between previous military environments and civilian workplaces [21]. In addition, while holding on to some values remained relevant, what was also important was the flexibility to unlearn old processes, to adopt new processes, to adapt skills, and to think strategically about how to contribute to the new workplace [19].…”

Section: Identity As a Veteranmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Two qualitative studies reported upon ex-military nurses' experiences in the USA. The first was of nurses in clinical areas, who reported that their military experience was neither understood nor valued [21]. The participants perceived that they had a broader scope of practice than their civilian counterparts.…”

Section: Value Of Military Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

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Military personnel and the transition into civilian employment: A systematic narrative review

Whybrow¹,

Milligan²

2021

Preprint

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Background: Service personnel are often of working age when retiring from the military. A sizeable number of military personnel transition into civilian careers every year, but little is known about the impact of this transition. Objective: This systematic narrative review aims to consider the international evidence about military personnel’s experience of transition to civilian employment.Methods: Four bibliographic databases were searched for published research about fulltime regular military veterans in civilian employment. Twenty-three studies were identified that included both qualitative and quantitative research. These studies were graded as moderate to good quality.Results: Four themes emerged from the review: the value of military experience; successful career transition; the difference between military and civilian employment; identity as a veteran.Key points were: veterans might hold a naive view of the value of their military experience;being able to transfer job skills to civilian employment may be an advantage; there were differences between the military and civilian workplace; constructing a civilian workplace identity included adjusting to different workplace values. Conclusion: Further research into the experience of deciding to leave the armed forces may help the armed forces to develop strategies for retaining personnel. No study focussed solely upon midlife career change and research into this area is important because military careers typically finish midlife.

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Understanding learning transfer of veterans in baccalaureate nursing programs: Their experience as student nurses

Patterson

Elliott

Chargualaf

2019

Nurse Education in Practice

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Military to civilian nurse: Personal and professional reconstruction

Cited by 11 publications

References 23 publications

Exploring nurse suicide by firearms: A mixed‐method longitudinal (2003–2017) analysis of death investigations

Exploring nurse suicide by firearms: A mixed‐method longitudinal (2003–2017) analysis of death investigations

Military personnel and the transition into civilian employment: A systematic narrative review

Understanding learning transfer of veterans in baccalaureate nursing programs: Their experience as student nurses

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