{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,9]],"date-time":"2026-03-09T22:59:42Z","timestamp":1773097182268,"version":"3.50.1"},"reference-count":38,"publisher":"Wiley","issue":"8","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2018,6,3]],"date-time":"2018-06-03T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1527984000000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/termsAndConditions#vor"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["onlinelibrary.wiley.com"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["Journal of Advanced Nursing"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2018,8]]},"abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract<\/jats:title><jats:sec><jats:title>Aims<\/jats:title><jats:p>To determine how undergraduate assistant in nursing employment in aged care helps to prepare new graduates for clinical work as a Registered Nurse.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Background<\/jats:title><jats:p>The amount and quality of clinical experience afforded by university programs has been the subject of constant debate in the nursing profession. New graduate nurses are often deemed inadequately prepared for clinical practice and so many nursing students seek employment as assistants in nursing whilst studying to increase their clinical experience.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Design<\/jats:title><jats:p>This paper presents the first phase of a larger mixed\u2010methods study to explore whether undergraduate assistant in nursing employment in aged care prepares new graduate nurses for the clinical work environment. The first phase involved the collection of quantitative data from a modified <jats:italic>Preparation for Clinical Practice<\/jats:italic> survey, which contained 50\u2010scaled items relating to nursing practice.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Ethics approval was obtained prior to commencing data collection. New graduate nurses who were previously employed as assistants in nursing in aged care and had at least 3\u00a0months\u2019 experience as a Registered Nurse, were invited to complete the survey. Social media and professional networks were used to distribute the survey between March 2015 \u2013 May 2016 and again in January 2017\u2014February 2017. Purposeful and snowballing sampling methods using social media and nursing networks were used to collect survey responses. Data were analysed using principal components analysis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>110 completed surveys were returned. Principal components analysis revealed four underlying constructs (components) of undergraduate assistant in nursing employment in aged care. These were emotional literacy (component 1), clinical skills (component 2), managing complex patient care (component 3) and health promotion (component 4).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The four extracted components reflect the development of core nursing skills that transcend that of technical skills and includes the ability to situate oneself as a nurse in the care of an individual and in a healthcare team.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/jan.13691","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,4,20]],"date-time":"2018-04-20T11:20:43Z","timestamp":1524223243000},"page":"1932-1954","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Undergraduate nursing assistant employment in aged care has benefits for new graduates"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"74","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8765-4765","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Maricris","family":"Algoso","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Nursing and Midwifery Western Sydney University Penrith NSW Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lucie","family":"Ramjan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Nursing and Midwifery Western Sydney University Penrith NSW Australia"},{"name":"Centre for Applied Nursing Research Liverpool NSW Australia"},{"name":"Ingham Institute of Applied Medical Research Liverpool NSW Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Leah","family":"East","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of New England Armidale NSW Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kath","family":"Peters","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Nursing and Midwifery Western Sydney University Penrith NSW Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,6,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_9_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.nedt.2011.08.002"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.nedt.2015.08.001"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.7748\/nr.2016.e1437"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1891\/1078-4535.22.3.176"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_6_1","volume-title":"Educating nurses: A call for radical transformation","author":"Benner P.","year":"2010"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_7_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.colegn.2013.05.001"},{"issue":"23","key":"e_1_2_9_8_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"What are the \u2018necessary\u2019 skills for a newly graduating RN? Results of an Australian survey","volume":"15","author":"Brown R. A.","year":"2016","journal-title":"BMC Nursing"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_9_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.5172\/conu.2011.38.1-2.94"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_10_1","volume-title":"Designing and conducting mixed methods research","author":"Creswell J. W.","year":"2011"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_11_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.nedt.2010.05.013"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_12_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3928\/01484834-20110630-01"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_13_1","volume-title":"Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS Statistics","author":"Field A.","year":"2015"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_14_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.12968\/bjon.2013.22.6.340"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_15_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.5172\/mra.2012.6.2.98"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_16_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/ijpp.12010"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_17_1","volume-title":"Multivariate data analysis","author":"Hair J. F. J.","year":"2010"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_18_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.12968\/bjon.2014.23.4.225"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_19_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1046\/j.1365-2923.1998.00152.x"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_20_1","volume-title":"Caring for older people in Australia: Principles for nursing practice","author":"Johnson A.","year":"2014"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_21_1","unstructured":"Kitson A. Conroy T. Kuluski K. Locock L. &Lyons R. (2013).Reclaiming and redefining the Fundamentals of Care: Nursing's response to meeting patients\u2019 basic human needs. Retrieved fromhttps:\/\/thesis.library.adelaide.edu.au\/dspace\/bitstream\/2440\/75843\/1\/hdl_75843.pdf."},{"key":"e_1_2_9_22_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3109\/0142159X.2013.759645"},{"issue":"2","key":"e_1_2_9_23_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Determining the number of factors to retain in EFA: An easy\u2010to\u2010use computer program for carrying out Parallel Analysis","volume":"12","author":"Ledesma R. D.","year":"2007","journal-title":"Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_24_1","volume-title":"Nursing theories: A framework for professional practice","author":"Masters K.","year":"2015"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_25_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1466-769X.2010.00444.x"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_26_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/swr\/svw005"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_27_1","volume-title":"Employment of assistants in nursing in NSW health acute care","author":"New South Wales Health","year":"2010"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_28_1","volume-title":"National competency standards for registered nurses","author":"Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia","year":"2006"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_29_1","volume-title":"SPSS survival manual","author":"Pallant J.","year":"2013"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_30_1","volume-title":"The continuum companion to pragmatism","author":"Pihlstrom S.","year":"2011"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_31_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3109\/11038128.2015.1025834"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_32_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1466-7657.2011.00897.x"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_33_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ijnurstu.2011.10.012"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_34_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.5480\/1536-5026-33.3.181"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_35_1","volume-title":"Using multivariate statistics","author":"Tabachnick B. G.","year":"2013"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_36_1","volume-title":"Handbook of mixed methods in social & behavioral research","author":"Tashakkori A.","year":"2003"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_37_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/jocn.12996"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_38_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.nedt.2009.07.011"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_39_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2202\/1548-923X.1827"}],"container-title":["Journal of Advanced Nursing"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/api.wiley.com\/onlinelibrary\/tdm\/v1\/articles\/10.1111%2Fjan.13691","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1111\/jan.13691","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,18]],"date-time":"2023-09-18T00:17:12Z","timestamp":1694996232000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/jan.13691"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2018,6,3]]},"references-count":38,"journal-issue":{"issue":"8","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2018,8]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1111\/jan.13691"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/jan.13691","archive":["Portico"],"relation":{},"ISSN":["0309-2402","1365-2648"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0309-2402","type":"print"},{"value":"1365-2648","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2018,6,3]]},"assertion":[{"value":"2018-03-15","order":1,"name":"accepted","label":"Accepted","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}},{"value":"2018-06-03","order":2,"name":"published","label":"Published","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}}]}}