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Dr. Heather K. Spence Laschinger
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
New Graduate Experiences of Incivility and Burnout in the Workplace: Impact of Empowering Professional Practice Environments on New Graduates’ Retention, Health and Wellbeing Purpose: The major focus of this research was to study the impact of key workplace and personal factors that affect new graduate nurses’ adjustments to their workplaces by gathering data to examine the extent to which empowering conditions that support professional nursing practice and the degree of workplace incivility in their work environments affect their health and wellbeing and turnover intentions over a one year timeframe. The primary research questions of this longitudinal study were: (1) What is the combined effect of supportive professional practice environments and empowerment on new graduates’ experiences of workplace incivility, burnout, and subsequently, their physical and mental health and turnover intentions at 2 points of time? (2) To what extent do personal resources, such as self-esteem, self-efficacy, locus of control, and emotional stability (core self-evaluation), affect new graduates’ responses to working conditions in their first year of nursing practice? Methods: A longitudinal mail survey of new graduate nurses in Ontario was used to address the objectives of the study. A random sample of 1400 new graduate nurses presently working in a teaching or community hospital in Ontario was selected from the College of Nurses of Ontario’s registry list and asked to participate in a mail survey at two points of time (1 year apart). We received 625 surveys, 415 of which met our inclusion criteria of fewer than 3 years of experience in nursing. Results:
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