WEEK 1 PEER RESPONSES NSG 3050 - Trans to Baccalaureate Nsg

NSG 3050 - Trans to Baccalaureate Nsg

Peer Response Instructions

· Substantially respond to at least  two other student posts in a way that prompts further input or provides another viewpoint.  Describe a situation from your nursing professional experience that backs up your viewpoint and discuss the social, moral, political and economic factors impacting your position.

· Please respond to peers thoughtfully, add value to the discussion, and apply ideas, insights, or concepts from scholarly sources, such as: journal articles, assigned readings, textbook material, lectures, course materials, or authoritative websites.

· Provide a rationale for your response with at least one scholarly source using an APA in-text citation and full reference.

Valerie Smith

Monday Jul 10 at 4:25pm

When I first began my journey to becoming a nurse, I was going through a phase in my life where I felt utterly stuck. I felt I had no room for any career advancement without sacrificing and going to college. I had been bartending for over ten years at the time. I had tried other things like property management and secretarial positions, but I always made more bartending, yet it was still never enough. I moved some small mountains and was able to go back to schooling. When I finished my ADN, I was exhausted from school and I wanted to take at least a year off. After my year off was up, I enrolled at Galen College. I am currently in the neutral zone of the Bridges Model of Transition. I consider my ending phase to have taken place when I first began my role as a new professional nurse on my unit. During my transition from school nurse to professional nurse, I experienced disenchantment when I realized how much harder my job would be without my preceptor constantly at my side for help. I experienced disengagement when I left the fellow students I was comfortable with to a whole new unit of unfamiliar nurses. I experienced disidentification as I was becoming accustomed to being a professional nurse instead of a school nurse. I also experienced disorientation as I was adjusting to my new schedule as a professional nurse.

I see myself in the neutral zone now. I have been a professional nurse for over a year and as I begin my BSN journey, I now have a whole new list of responsibilities, behaviors, and expectations that I am not sure I am ready for. Change is scary and can be overwhelming. “Change” is the circumstantial situation in which one finds oneself and “transition” is the psychological processing that occurs as a result of that change; Bridges points out that while we are often conscious that a change is occurring, we are less aware of our emotional response to it (Mills & Shy, 2010). As I conduct myself through the neutral zone, I realize that for me to be able to transition into new beginnings, I will have to fully commit myself to this degree and change my thinking and behaviors to be successful.

Bridges Transition Model. William Bridges Associates. (2020, March 12). https://wmbridges.com/about/what-is-transition/ Links to an external site.

Shy, Y., & Mills, L. (2010). A Critical New Pathway Towards Change in Abusive Relationships: The Theory of Transition Framework. Clinical Social Work Journal, 38(4), 418–425. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-010-0279-0 Links to an external site.

Kendra Lewis

Yesterday Jul 12 at 9:31pm

Hi Everyone,

I am returning to school because my goal is to become an ER NP. I have to get my BSN, and MSN, and then complete an FNP program to obtain this goal. Also, there has been talk for a couple of years now that all RNs have to have their BSN. Lastly, the hospital I work for pays for it, so why not!

Going by the Bridges Model, transitioning to the professional role, I see myself in the second stage: The neutral zone. According to this stage, "people affected by the change are often confused, uncertain, and impatient. Depending on how well you're managing the change, they may also experience a higher workload as they get used to new systems and new ways of working."(Bridges, W, 2017) In this stage, people tend to teeter between the old and the new and tend to experience "skepticism about the change, anxiety about their new role, incompetence, and even resentment toward the change." (Bridges, W, 2017). Since deciding to go back to school I have been having mixed emotions. I'm nervous to start again, scared about all the work and working, impatient for it to hurry and be over, and excited for the end result. I have been licensed as an RN for a year but have only been working for about nine months. So everything is still relatively new to me and I feel like I'm starting all over again by starting school again.

Professional skills and characteristics I will need to develop to transition to the next level in the Bridges Model of Transition are confidence, openness, and readiness to learn new knowledge and move forward into my new role, along with critical thinking, and leadership skills.

REFERENCE:

Bridges, W. (1991, 2003, 2009, 2017) 'Managing Transitions,' Da Capo Lifelong Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc.