With over 40 years of professional nursing experience and 20 years working with new nurses as they transition to professional practice, Dr. Duchscher offers rare and powerful insights into what it is like to move from being a student to being a professional practitioner in the nursing discipline. The theory contained within this book not only ACCURATELY illustrates the experience of thousands of newly graduated nurses, but reveals that experience through POIGNANT and sometimes humorous stories told by new nurses themselves.