To investigate whether nursing students face the transition shock problems in the stage of clinical practice, and analyze the performance in the dimensions of physical, emotional, intellectual, sociocultural and developmental, and provide reference for formulating clinical intern training programs for nursing students.

A cross-sectional survey of nursing students on the impact of transition shock and its influencing factors were conducted using the General Survey Form and the Transition Shock of Newly Graduated Nurses Scale.

The transition shock score of nursing students was 64.49±16.33. The score of physical dimension was 15.73±5.22, intellectual dimension was 13.13±3.80, emotional dimension was 19.15±5.32, sociocultural and developmental dimension was 16.47±5.41. The proposed academic qualifications (F value was 5.96, P<0.01), the reason for choosing nursing profession (F value was 7.28, P<0.01), family support level (t value was -2.75, P=0.01), first internship department (F value was 5.22, P<0.01), and internship intention (F value was 3.43, P=0.03) cause the differences in the transition shock of nursing students.

Nursing students will face the transition shock problems in the stage of clinical practice, and the impact of physical dimension is the most obvious. In the development of clinical internship training programs, hospitals and institutions should take into account the transition shock of nursing students, as earlier as possible perceive and prevent the occurrence and intensification of nursing students' clinical transformation problems, and assist them to successfully pass the transitional impact stage.

Transition shock theory; Nursing students; Status; Root cause analysis