title: Relationships between role models and role perceptions of new graduate nurses.
abstract: This study was conducted to examine relationships between role models and role perceptions of new graduate nurses. The sample consisted of the 25 senior nursing students in a generic baccalaureate nursing program who were administered questionnaires 1 month prior to graduation and 3 months after beginning employment. Results indicated that: (a) a majority of faculty role models of new graduate nurses are replaced by work-related role models in the first 3 months of employment, (b) the most important role model characteristic was clinical experience/performance, and (c) role perception orientations of new graduate nurses are overwhelmingly professional prior to graduation, but become more bureaucratic after exposure to work-related models. This study validates the findings of similar research conducted over the past 25 years. Further research is needed into factors that lead to the perpetuation of a bureaucratic work environment and bureaucratic nurses, in spite of professionally oriented nursing education.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau.
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Green
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004651:Employment; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008611:Mentors; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D012380:Role; D012938:Social Perception; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology