Calling All Nurses
As newly retired nurses, we continue our passion for helping the public understand the scope, challenges, and rewards of contemporary nursing practice, using the lived experiences of point of care nurses. In Season 1 we spoke with nurses making change with challenges of social concern, such as Indigenous health, the toxic drug poisoning crisis, planetary health, public health and the pandemic, and challenges in acute care.
In Season 2, we are speaking with nurses in positions of influence provincially, in B.C., nationally, in Canada, and internationally. Season 2 is available now!
Calling All Nurses
Calling All Nurses Episode 5 - Josh Duncan with Acute Care and New Graduate Transitions
In 2019, in response to the Nightingale Challenge, a global initiative encouraging health employers to provide leadership development for new nurses and midwives throughout 2020, Island Health and the University of Victoria joined forces, establishing the New Graduate RN Council. The purpose of the New Graduate RN Council is providing new nurses with opportunities to contribute to and be mentored in leadership, governance, and change. (Island Health, 2020). Building on the research of Judy Boychuk Duchscher, who studied new graduate transitions, the New Grad RN Council seeks to understand and support new graduates through the transition process from education to practice. Josh Duncan chairs the New Grad RN Council and will talk about both transitions of new grads as well as mentorship, leadership, and working as a new nurse during a global pandemic and why intravenous starts are not the most important skill in nursing.
Josh Duncan has been a registered nurse for five years, having worked primarily in Med/Surg and the ICU. He is passionate about new graduate nurse advocacy, transition to practice, and baking the ultimate pie. Although blackberry pie will always be one of his personal favourites, his caramel apple and chocolate cherry pies are forces to be reckoned with.
Island Health Grad Transition Infogram:
https://www.islandhealth.ca/sites/default/files/careers/documents/new-grad-transition-stages.pdf
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