title: Journaling as a mechanism to facilitate graduate nurses' role transition.
abstract: Staff educators continue to develop creative solutions to improve critical thinking, increase confidence, improve organizational acculturation, and reduce the frustrations that challenge the novice nurse. Traditionally, journal writing is used by nursing faculty as a method to link the student nurses' lived clinical experience to nursing theory. Expanding journaling into new graduate nurse orientation programs may benefit new nurses on their journey to professional practice.
authors.affiliation: Banner Baywood Medical Center, Mesa, Arizona 85234, USA. erika.sewell@bannerhealth.com
authors.forename: Erika A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Sewell
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000379:methods*; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education*; D011996:Records; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States; D014956:Writing