Positive and negative emotional changes in newly recruited nurses within one year: A Longitudinal Study
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new employed nurses, positive and negative emotions, longitudinal study.Abstract
Aims and objectives: To explore changes in positive and negative emotions among newly recruited nurses within one year of their employment. Background: New nurses often suffer great emotional shock during the period of adaptation. However, few studies have examined the positive and negative emotions of newly employed nursing staff (new graduated nurses and nurses had previous working experience) in the first year of their employment. Design: This study was a cross-sectional and partly prospective. Methods: This study examined a series of different emotions among newly employed nurses when they joined the hospital and at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months. Convenience sampling was used to recruit participants from a tertiary hospital in China. A self-designed questionnaire was used to measure their emotional changes. Results: The emotional changes of nurses (N=172) within one year of employment have stages. The proportion of nurses with positive emotions decreased within 3 months of employment, increased after 3 months of employment, and gradually stabilized after 6 months of employment (p> 0.05).As a whole, the negative emotions of new nurses gradually eased with the extension of employment time, and the proportion of nurses with mild negative emotions increased within 3 months of employment, while the proportion of nurses with negative emotions decreased significantly within 3-6 months of employment (p<0.05). Conclusions: There is a significant stage difference in the positive and negative emotional responses of newly hired nurses. Relevance to clinical practice: Our study indicates that during the 3-6 months of their employment is the best time to intervene the emotional changes of newly recruited nurses. Nurse managers and head nurses must work together to support newly employed nurses in individualized emotional management, doing so to improve the nursing staff retention rate and reduce levels of negative emotions.
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