Nursing Education & Research

Biography

Awatif Alrasheeday is a lecturer at Hail University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Nursing College. Currently, she is a fourth -year PhD candidate at the School of Health Science, Salford University, United Kingdom. Her research interests in exploring the experiences of newly graduate nurses in Saudi Arabia during their first destination posts in a government hospital. In her research, she wanted to have a better understanding of the experience of the new graduate nurse transition, especially in the context of Saudi culture. To do so, she chosen to frame her study by using an ethnographic approach because she consider that NGNs are a specific cultural group. For her PhD Thesis, she is working under the supervision Dr- Joan Livesley and Dr- Neil Murphy. Awatif Alrasheeday aim to critically examine how social and cultural mores were interpreted by NGNs and how they framed and shaped their experiences.

 

Abstract

Background: Although there is much written about the experiences of newly qualified nurses, this tends to focus on those working in westernised cultures. Less research attention has been paid the experiences of NGN (new graduate nurses) in eastern countries.  

Objectives: This study explored, described and interprets the experience of NGNs at one hospital in the northern region of Saudi Arabia. All were in the initial 6 months of their first posts since entering the nursing workforce. 

Method: a qualitative case study, informed by ethnographic methods was chosen to conduct the study.   

Participants and Sampling: purposive sampling was used to recruit a total of 9 NGNs and 5 senior nurses. 

Data collection: Data collection consisted of over 100 hours of fieldwork observations with formal and informal conversations

This data informed one-to-one focused interviews with the participants.

Data Analysis:  Data was analyzed using thematic analysis as described by Braun and Clarke (2006) to enable in-depth insight into what was going on and develop a coherent synthesis of the case. 

Findings:  This work highlights the struggle and challenges that NGNs face in the context of Saudi culture and the drive to modernize the Saudi nursing workforce. The NGNs feel and are treated differently as they struggle to find their place in the structures that frame their working lives.