Supplementary Assessment : Two Nurse to Nurse Challenges.

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Introduction.
Working as a new graduate can be difficult and sometimes it can lead to job quitting or
pursuing another career(Wong et al., 2018). In this regard, how you continue and develop your
nursing career highly depends on your first one to two years of experience. Most of the
challenges faced by new graduates might be due to high workload, expectations, and lack of
enough skills(Hofler & Thomas, 2016). However, nurse to nurse relationships may determine or
facilitate a personal career. This paper seeks to evaluate two intra-professional (nurse to nurse)
challenges that the GRN as a beginning practitioner may experience during their transition to
practice. Additionally, this study will address how effective communication methods and
employing self-awareness can help to avoid or resolve conflicts in a nursing team.
Two Nurse to Nurse Challenges.
One of the major challenges that new graduate nurses may experience during their first
year of practice is bullying from other more experienced nurses or managers. Workplace
bullying normally refers to frequent and persistent acts of downgrading and demeaning another
individual through negative and unreasonable actions or cruel words that affect another person's
self-esteem and confidence(Vogelpohl, Rice, Edwards, & Bork, 2013). Nurses often experience
bullying and workplace violence from other individuals, doctors or patients. But what hurts most
is bullying from other fellow nurses who are supposed to work as a team(Laschinger, Borgogni,
Consiglio, & Read, 2015). Evidence shows that new nurse graduates often experience bullying
from other nurses leading to poor job satisfaction, loss of interest in continuing with nursing
career, depression and loss of job(Vogelpohl et al., 2013). A study was done in the United States
which involved 352 newly registered nurse participants. The results of this study showed that
about 30% of newly registered nurses left their jobs within the first six months due to nurse to

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nurse bullying cases(Read & Laschinger, 2013). Additionally, about 57% left their work in the
second year due to bullying and incivility from fellow nurses(Read & Laschinger, 2013).In this
regard, new nurse graduates should be aware that nurse to nurse bullying is a common challenge.
However, most hospitals have better channels that are put in place to allow any type of bullying
reporting.
Poor support from other fellow experienced nurses is another major challenge faced by a
newly graduated nurse. Although some of the nurses are willing to help new graduate nurses to
climb up the ladder and gain the required experience, most of the nurses will offer zero or
nothing working support(D’ambra & Andrews, 2014). Newly graduated nurses usually have high
levels of theoretical knowledge than practical skills. Therefore they need high levels of support
from experienced nurses to make use of their knowledge. This makes them be dependant on
expert nurses in most areas of clinical practice(Read & Laschinger, 2013). Such areas may
include how to respond to emergency procedures, complicated cases, patients’ conflicts or ow to
deal with workplace challenges. Experience nurse needs to offer guidelines for complicated
procedures and policies. In this regard, poor or little support can make them have a lot of
difficulties in their first year of experience.
How effective communication methods and employing self-awareness can help to
avoid or resolve conflicts in a nursing team.
Newly graduated nurses may often be faced by conflicts wit other nurses due to various
working challenges and personal differences(Wong et al., 2018). Conflicts among nurses lead to
the poor working team thus influencing the safety and quality delivery of care. However,
conflicts between nurses can be prevented or resolved when they arise without breaking the
working relationship. As a new graduate nurse, employing self-awareness can highly help in