In a few short months, I will be transiting from a student nurse to Registered Nurse. It is an exciting but terrifying journey into the new role and I having many mixed emotions about it. Being a student nurse for the last four years, I feel like been on an emotional roller coaster of greatest triumphs and some thoughts of quitting. When thinking about the transition to new graduate Registered Nurse, I would compare to the transition to the learning how to ride a bicycle analogy. Being a student nurse, I feel like I am starting to learn how to ride a bicycle with training wheels. The training wheels for me represent having the safety net of clinical instructor and preceptors to fall back on for guidance on decision making and having a second
