Bakgrund: Det råder brist på sjuksköterskor i dagens hälso- och sjukvård, vilket resulterar i att antalet erfarna sjuksköterskor minskar och det blir svårare för nyutexaminerade sjuksköterskor att få stöttning i sin nya profession. Övergången från student till ansvarig sjuksköterska beskrivs av många som utmanande och intensiv. Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva upplevelsen av mentors betydelse för nyutexaminerade sjuksköterskor under det första arbetsåret på en medicin- och geriatrikklinik. Metod: Kvalitativ semistrukturerad intervjustudie och en induktiv metod har använts. Vilket innebär att studien utgått från deltagarnas egna erfarenheter och upplevelser. Elva nyutexaminerade sjuksköterskor som arbetar på ett länsdelssjukhus i södra Sverige intervjuades. Resultat: Genom en kvalitativ innehållsanalys framkom tre teman med tillhörande underteman. Sjuksköterskans arbetssätt är första temat (sjuksköterskans förhållningssätt, tidspress och ansvar). Andra temat är säker vård (patientsäkerhet, kommunikation och vetenskaplig evidens) och tredje temat är samspel (struktur, tillgänglighet och support). Slutsats: Mentor är av betydelse och en trygghet för nyutbildade sjuksköterskor under första tiden som kliniskt verksamma. / Background: There is a lack of nurses in today's healthcare. Which results in the number of experienced nurses decreases and it becomes more difficult for newly graduated nurses to get support in their new profession. The transition from student to responsible nurse is described by many as challenging and intensive. Purpose: The purpose of the study was to describe the experience of mentors' importance for newly graduated nurses during the first year of work in a medicine and geriatric clinic. Method: Qualitative semi-structured interview study and an inductive method has been used. Which means that the study is based on the participants' own experiences. Eleven newly graduated nurses were interviewed who worked at a county hospital in southern Sweden. Result: Through a qualitative content analysis, three themes emerged with associated sub-themes. The nurse's way of working is the first theme (nurse´s approach, time pressure, responsibility). The second theme is safe care (patients’ safety, communication, scientific evidence) and the third theme is interaction (structure, availability, support). Conclusions: In the study we found that mentors are of importance and safety during new nurses the first time in the business.

Organizational performance in the healthcare field is of great interest for many stakeholders. Efficient use of resources and delivery of high quality of care should be relevant to any taxpayer hoping to live healthily and grow old in Sweden. Simultaneously, the working conditions for the employees need to be sustainable if the impending lack of 170 000 workers in the healthcare sector by the year of 2030 is to be mitigated (Statistiska centralbyrån, 2012). The scope of this study is to examine how the quality management systems applied to ensure and improve the aforementioned objectives are perceived by the individual employees. Specifically, practitioners in the nursing professions are enquired about the design principles of enabling control as described by Adler and Borys (1996). The study has utilized a quantitative methodology and an online survey to collect personal perceptions and experiences from 400 individuals in the nursing professions on this topic. Major findings are that the majority of the respondents state that they perceive three out of four of the design principles of an enabling system to be present in the quality management system at their workplace. In addition, there is a strong association between the perception of the enabling characteristics flexibility and repair and general job satisfaction. Further studies with larger samples would increase the statistical power of these correlations. In addition, a large proportion of the respondents perceive that the quality management processes is negatively affected by financial constraints. Only a minority of the respondents perceive the workload constituted by tasks connected to quality management as reasonable.