My Acculturation Experience in the Nursing Profession (Essay Sample)

My Acculturation Experience
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My Acculturation Experience
Nursing is a complex profession that requires a flexible individual to acculturate to new environments quickly. The ongoing cultural diversity among the nursing students and the work environment has created a need for flexibility in the nursing profession. Professional acculturation can be explained as the process of internalizing the norms, attitudes and values of a professional culture are internalized (Feng & Tsai, 2012). Similarly, it can also be challenging to adapt to a new experience as a recent graduate in the culture of the nursing profession. The acculturation experience as a new graduate to the nursing profession's culture is usually easy for some and hard for others. Therefore, the paper will present a description of my acculturation experience as a new graduate to the culture of the nursing profession.
My acculturation experience as a new graduate to the culture of the nursing profession can be described as stressful and full of anxiety. Just like most of my old and new nursing colleagues who joined the team within the past year, the new environment seemed complicated at first. For instance, I had issues reorganizing the study programs, which contributed to stress and anxiety. However, it did not take me long for me to adapt and normalize the acculturation to