Learning Objective 1: The learner will be able to state the barriers to new graduate nurse engagement in interprofessional collaboration.
Learning Objective 2: The learner will be able to identify strategies to support new graduate nurse engagement in IPC through transforming nursing education and practice environments.
The nursing literature does not provide an answer to this question. Conceptual analyses of IPC suggest that it is characterized by: sharing, partnership, expertise, interdependency, power and process; however, it is not clear whether these attributes reflect the experiences of the transitioning novice nurse. To explore this theoretical relationship, the contemporary new graduate RN literature (2000 – 2009) was abstracted verbatim and critically mapped to the aforementioned concepts. A thematic conceptual matrix was constructed to provide a rigorous analysis, both within and across the concepts. The presentation summarizes the findings of the analysis, and proposes universal strategies to enhance new graduate engagement in IPC. Transforming nursing education and practice environments can assist entry-level nurses to achieve IPC expectations and improve health care outcomes.