First Year Nurse

First Year Nurse: Wisdom, Warnings, and What I Wish I'd Known My First 100 Days on the Job Hardcover – March 31, 2009

Author: Barbara Arnoldussen | Language: English | ISBN: 1607140640 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Barbara Arnoldussen, an honors graduate of the Marquette University College of Nursing, received an MBA from San Jose State University. She is the Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Officer for the Research Compliance Office at Stanford University, ensuring that its human subject research studies meet national standards. She has also been a consultant to a NASA patient safety initiative, a hospital and a clinic quality manager, clinic director, online educator, research coordinator, and newspaper reporter.

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• Series: First Year
• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing; 3rd Edition edition (March 31, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1607140640
• ISBN-13: 978-1607140641
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
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I bought an earlier edition of this book around the end of my first year out of nursing school. It was called "Training Wheels for Nurses: What I Wish I Had Known My First 100 Days on the Job: Wisdom, Tips, and Warnings from Experienced Nurses" when I bought it.

Some of it is a little too cutesy for me ("Nothing like eating microwave popcorn out of a clean, disposable bedpan..." -- srsly? please...).

However, parts of it had really good advice, especially about developing your own system or "brain" for giving report/shift change (unless, like my current job, the report format is imposed on you by management), and also on using experienced nurses' "brains" until you find the one that works for you.

The section on delegating is also helpful for those who have never delegated before. Advice on how to be assertive to experienced nurses who "eat their young" -- as well as avoiding lazy fellow RNs/care techs, new RNs who are in "panic" mode, and letting the inevitable crap you get from some experienced nurses who think they know everything even though they haven't read anything new since they graduated in 1975 -- was advice I could have used in my first year. Unfortunately, like I said, I didn't find the book at my local Borders until the *end* of my first year of my first RN job. :-\

I came to nursing in my late 30s after a career in a totally different field. I was NOT clinical staff prior to going into nursing school. That may be why I found the book so useful.

If you worked as a CNA or PCT before getting your RN or BSN, you may not find this book useful. It's really more geared to those TOTALLY new to nursing and health care.

But it's good enough that I'm going to buy a copy for my cousin when she finishes nursing school.

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