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Your First Year As a Nurse, Second Edition: Making the Transition from Total Novice to Successful Professional
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About Your First Year As A Nurse, Second Edition: Making
Product Description Survive and Thrive as a Nurse in Today's New Health-Services Landscape Welcome to the compassionate and caring world of nursing! You are entering a profession that offers great rewards and endless opportunities. But you must prepare for the challenges ahead and do everything you can to ensure that you experience the best that nursing has to offer. Get off to the right start in your new profession by learning how to: • Find the job that's perfect for you • Create your own patient-centered style of nursing • Develop positive relationships with doctors, patients, and other nurses • Stay positive, deal with conflict and adversity, and avoid burnout • Network, enhance your education and career, and become a leader And NEW! to this revised edition: • Invaluable information about nursing licensure, including an extensive FAQ section • Discussion of professional issues related to standards of care, nursing ethics, and health-care reimbursement • Job-hunting challenges and solutions • Solutions for handling quandaries such as delayed career start, nontraditional practice, and more • Trends and opportunities for the future of nursing • A special section for second-career nurses About the Author Donna Wilk Cardillo, R.N., whose nursing career covers more than 20 years, is president of Cardillo & Associates. One of the country's leading experts on nursing career management, she lives in Wall, New Jersey. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1 Your New Career It's your first day as a nurse and, boy, are you nervous. Did you make the right decision? Is this the right career for you? Can you handle the responsibility? The nervousness, anxiety, and indecision are normal. When the reality of your chosen profession becomes evident, it can be overwhelming. But never lose sight of the reason you chose to enter this glorious profession—to help others, make a difference, and make the world a better place to be. That's what it's all about. Most of us start out scared, nervous, and perhaps even feeling inadequate. Remember that after the end of your first day on the new job, you'll be more experienced than you were that morning. After each day, you will be further along than you were the day before. Before you know it, days will turn into weeks, weeks into months, and finally you'll find yourself with a full year of experience under your belt! It's important, in this early phase of your career, to set small, realistic goals for yourself. Set an initial goal to get through orientation. Then set a goal to get through your first three months, then six months, and then one year. Most experienced nurses agree that it takes about a year before you feel comfortable with most common situations. It will probably take two years to be completely comfortable with all situations. So be patient and just persevere. In many ways, your education is just beginning. I used to say, jokingly, that I never learned anything until I got out of nursing school. Although that isn't completely accurate, when I was finally working on my own as a nurse and was out of the student mode and no longer in the safe confines of my instructor's wing, it sometimes felt like as if I were starting froms cratch. For certain, I'll never forget how overwhelmed and scared I felt the first time I was handed the narcotics keys to hold on to through my shift. I wanted to say, "Oh, you've made a mistake. I'm not responsible enough to carry these keys." I suddenly realized the responsibility I had. I wondered if I could meet everyone's expectations. Nursing in North America While there are some minor differences, such as incredentials and terminology, nursing in the United States and nursing in Canada are very similar. The biggest difference is that Canadian nurses work within a national health-care system and nurses in the United States work in a largely private system. This does not, however, translat
