First-career and second-career nurses’ experiences of stress, presenteeism and burn-out during transition to practice

Commentary on : Rainbow JG, Steege LM. Transition to practice experiences of first and second career nurses: a mixed method study. J Clin Nurs 2018;00:1-12. There is very little research studying the experiences of traditional graduate nurses (TGNs) and secondary career graduate nurses (SCGNs) during the professional role transition to practice. Knowing more of their experiences will provide insight about the challenges facing them. Therefore, this study compared first-career and second-career nurses’ experiences of stress and coping, presenteeism and burn-out during transition …