Student Nurse

Sean on September 6th, 2008

There has been some discussion lately about a nurse’s job choice and job difficulties. Do you stay or do you go? What sways you to choose one facility over another? Do you stay in your comfort zone, or do you remove the security blanket? I’d like to focus on the job environment itself. It’s a [...]

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Sean on August 22nd, 2008

We hire a lot of new graduate nurses where I currently work. I actually help with the orientation and transition process of new grads transforming from Student Nurse (SN)to Graduate Nurse (GN), to the auspicious Registered Nurse (RN). The biggest question on all GN’s minds is taking the NCLEX-RN. “What’s the best way to study?” [...]

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Sean on August 22nd, 2008

This is for all you student nurses out there. This is a lesson we all learn the hard way, and it’s a lesson you will learn one way or another. If you can accept and embrace these to constants in the nursing world, you’ll have much less stress in your day and will not burn [...]

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