Lessons in Nursing

Before I became a nurse, I was clueless as to how to go about becoming one. It was by pure accident that I got the degree I did. So here are some tips on the steps you can take to become a nurse and maximize your time.

1. Research the degrees

There are a lot of degrees out there that people consider “nursing school”. There are also some certifications with the word…
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I know a lot of my students tell me that they want to specialize right out of school. Rarely does anyone say that they want to be an RN on a med/surg floor their entire career. Unfortunately, this is where the true “shortage in nursing” lies. If you truly want to be highly sought after in the nursing community, you should choose med/surg. You will always have a job and…
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As an instructor at two different nursing schools in the area, I am around a lot of nursing students. I have noticed that a lot of the students get caught up in the skills of nursing. I think that students believe that a good nurse is just being good at the sum of the skills. I am here to tell you that is not true. There is so much involved…
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I have noticed a lot more lately if everyone around me is always having a bad day or if it is just the world we are now living in? Granted, I work in an oncology clinic, so a lot of my patients are having bad days, and I am not talking about them. The employees, both at the cancer center and at school, constantly complaining and are just generally unhappy…
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Nurses that think they know it all scare me! Further thoughts from my last post about nurses knowledge.  There are a lot of nurses out there that think or claim that they know everything. Stay away from them! Nurses hold a lot of responsibility in their hands, and can you imagine if you don’t know a skill and claim you do? That is setting yourself up for failure…
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A lot of my students tell me they are afraid they won’t know everything when they graduate. They make this statement with a hint of question in their voice asking if they chose the right program, or if they didn’t learn as much as they should have. My answer is always “no matter what program you choose, everyone feels this way. Sometimes I still feel like I know nothing.”

As nurses…
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As nurses, we are forced to deal with some of the most intimidating and frightening topics in our society today. We deal with illness and death, letting go in an age where holding on is revered and overcoming death is strived for. In today’s technological age, we discover new treatments that can prolong life, and with this, a sense of immortality is assumed. It is a painful truth to realize…
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I have recently started an account on facebook and have gotten in touch with some friends from high school. I noticed the new last names and the different places people live. How many lives could be ours with a single changed moment? Aren’t we all a sum of moments and experiences? If one moment in my life were changed, I might have a different career or a different last name…
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In my previous post, I had copied a paper I wrote in the first month of nursing school. It was great to reread this because I think as nurses, we sometimes forget why we chose this profession. We get caught up in the job and lose sight of the career. We work long shifts, we take care of difficult patients and we have both an emotionally and physically demanding…
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