Abstract
The quality and safety associated with the delivery of nursing care provided to patients is directly tied to the competence of graduating nursing students. As they prepare to enter the workforce, graduating nursing students transit from classroom to clinical settings. Multiple challenges might occur at the same time during a transition. Several roles change from student to registered nurse, including job requirements, expectations, and work responsibilities. This study's most important goal is to assess the clinical competencies and management capabilities required for role transfer by graduates of the School of Nursing, College of pharmacy and nursing, University of Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman. In this descriptive cross-sectional study, sixty-eight newly graduated nurses were surveyed. The information was gathered through pre-validated structured self-administered questionnaires A wide range of competencies was rated by respondents, including their ability to prioritize patients' needs, rapport, time management, legal decision making, team effort, and values. The vast majority of those surveyed, 63.2% (43), have perceived adequately clinical competency skills. And 73.5% (50) of the newly graduated nurses in different clinical settings had been observed with efficient management skills. Perceived clinical competence and management skill were not affected by age, gender, marital status, location of assignment, and graduation (p>0.05). Still, the participant's perception of a lack of confidence in decision-making in the work atmosphere was the most unappealing element, 45.6% (31). Our study concludes that there are still lacunas and areas that need to be addressed and strategies to focus on newly graduated nurses' transition process for better professional nursing practice.