title: A senior internship: facilitating the transition to nursing practice.
abstract: Nursing students are not afforded the opportunity to take a full patient assignment before transitioning into practice. It then often takes students months to feel comfortable caring for more than 2 patients once in practice. To assist students with transition-into-practice issues, the authors discuss a senior internship where students work one-to-one with an expert nurse, becoming acclimated to taking a full patient assignment.
authors.affiliation: Nursing and Public Administration Department, Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania 18424, USA. dhaleem@marywood.edu
authors.forename: Diane M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Haleem
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Manetti
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Evanina
authors.forename: Robin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gallagher
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D016294:Models, Nursing; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D057184:Practice Patterns, Nurses'; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D016526:Workload / Q000523:psychology