Facilitating the transition from a nursing student to a Registered Nurse in the final clinical practicum: a scoping literature review.

Abstract

Transition from a nursing student to a Registered Nurse is a stressful and challenging process. Different postgraduate residency and orientation programmes have been developed to ease the first year of employment, but less attention has been paid to pregraduate programmes and how the final clinical practicum of nursing education should be conducted to facilitate this transition.