New nurse workplace adaptation: a Walker and Avant concept analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

High turnover among new nurses critically threatens the stability of the global healthcare workforce. While existing theories explain why new nurses struggle, they fail to clarify how new nurses successfully adapt. This gap shifts the focus to the individual-driven process of workplace adaptation, a key factor in retention. However, the core concept of workplace adaptation itself remains ambiguous and is often conflated with top-down organizational socialization. Without a clear and consistent definition, progress in understanding and facilitating this critical process is severely limited. Accordingly, this study aims to systematically clarify the concept of new nurse workplace adaptation.

Methods

Concept analysis was conducted using Walker and Avant's eight-ste

SUBMITTER: Xu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12727437 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature