New Grad

Sean on February 21st, 2009

Image Source: Deviant Art Lately ,there has been a lot of talk throughout the internets and my blogosphere about the effects of the Nursing Shortage on New Graduate Nurses, and how some New Graduate nurses are stressed, nervous and maybe even a little scared about the daunting tasks that lie before them. The take home [...]

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Sean on October 7th, 2008

The one and only constant thing in life is CHANGE. Everything else is CHANCE. I’ve been a nurse for over 3 years now. To some this would seem a very short time. But in this day and age of the nursing world, 3 years of experience in a nursing specialty ACTUALLY is classified as a [...]

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Sean on September 14th, 2008

Working in a Level 1 Trauma ICU is fast-paced to say the least. There isn’t much that happens on the unit that is in slo-mo. The staff takes this for granted sometimes. We are so used to the ‘pulse’ of the floor that what most would consider an emergency that warranted calling a ‘code’ and/or [...]

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