Transition to Baccalaureate Nursing Practice: Preparing Practicing Nurses for Professional Advancement

Defining Preparation and Preparedness for Nursing Study Abroad Trips

“…Competence, and Cultural Sensitivity), the study abroad trip becomes the preparation for students to enter the nursing workforce with greater cultural awareness, language skills, and expanded worldviews. Rather than prepare nursing students to study abroad, HEIs prepare students for their future career via the study abroad trip (Conejo, Loyd 2017, Bowker, Tomlinson 2017, Aggar, Bloomfield et al 2017, Smallheer, Hunt et al 2018, Øgård-Repål, De Presno et al 2018). The problem is that articles on cultural competence are preoccupied with the impact and benefit on nursing students who have travelled abroad, and little mention is given to the patient populations for which care is provided (Crump et al 2010).…”

“…The study abroad trip is the preparation for students to enter the nursing workforce A finding related to the institutional organisation of HEIs is that students' preparation to study abroad is in fact the study abroad trip itself. In other words, instead of delineating preparation needs for nursing students prior to studying abroad, the literature keeps the focus on the future career of the nurses (Conejo, Loyd 2017, Bowker, Tomlinson 2017, Aggar, Bloomfield et al 2017, Smallheer, Hunt et al 2018, Øgård-Repål, De Presno et al 2018 -paying little attention to the population at the study abroad location.…”

“…The trips are not meant to be prepared for, but to be preparation for the diversifying patient population the students will encounter upon entrance into the workforce (Conejo, Loyd 2017, Bowker, Tomlinson 2017, Aggar, Bloomfield et al 2017, Smallheer, Hunt et al 2018, Øgård-Repål, De Presno et al 2018. Nursing students are, in a sense, thrust into foreign contexts, and expected to re-enter their home countries able to provide culturally competent nursing care.…”

The BOSS method

“…T RANSITIONING TO practice for new RNs can be challenging, especially if they have been exposed only to theory, skills, and minimal patient care as nursing students. 1 During most prelicensure nursing programs, nursing students manage and organize care for only one or two patients during a clinical experience. Most programs provide education via lectures and simulation labs before beginning clinical rotations in real healthcare settings, but nursing students are not typically exposed to a case load of multiple patients.…”

“…TRANSITIONING TO practice for new RNs can be challenging, especially if they have been exposed only to theory, skills, and minimal patient care as nursing students 1. During most prelicensure nursing programs, nursing students manage and organize care for only one or two patients during a clinical experience.…”