15 things they don't teach you in a nursing school
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You didn’t learn how you become someone more aware
of your environment, more sensitive to pain and care needs. Nursing becomes a
part of your overall personality and moves from
being just a job to your calling.
1. HOW NURSING CHANGES YOU
2.How To Give A Good Report
School did teach you the basics But it’s only when you hit the floor and learn
how to deliver the right message that you
understand. Giving a report effectively requires you to be alert, on the point and
confident.
3. To Keep Up Or Be Left Behind
Nurses are a busy lot and cannot make time to mollycoddle a new
recruit. You’ll have to hit the floor running and get
on with the job. If you don’t keep up with the
pace, you’ll be left behind
4. Good Time Management Skills
You have to manage a lot of duties. Managing patient
charts quickly and efficiently is a skill that nursing school
will not teach you. Only when you are a practicing nurse will you understand how to handle your tasks and responsibilities to get everything done on time.
5. How To Multitask And
PrioritizeLearning to multitask is part
of the job. You’ll have to comply with different
requests and manage to juggle them all efficiently. When you have multiple
patients you’ll have to learn to prioritize needs
6. How To Manage Your Stress
ProperlyHealthy methods of coping
stress are not taught in school. You’ll have to learn
how to cope with your stresses on the job and pick up pointers via research and your colleagues. Either you
learn to cope with your stresses burn out
7. How To Deal With Death
As a new nurse, you might tend to bond with certain
critically ill patients and not be prepared to watch them
die. It takes a great emotional toll out of any nurse. It’ll take you time to learn how to deal with death in a professional
and healthy manner.
8. How To Deal With Feelings
You’ll be exposed to all kinds of feelings in your nursing job. Feelings of joy, depression and excitement. You’ll make silly mistakes, you have
to work without any regard for your
personal feelings.
9. How To Deal With Doctors
School taught you many things but not how to
communicate with ill tempered doctors. Doctors as a rule
don’t have much patience with anyone who’s slow on the uptake. You’ll have to deal
with doctors who never sleep, hate their jobs and see you as
a nuisance.
10. Bleach Is Your Friend.
The likelihood of getting something nasty splashed on
your scrubs is directly proportional to the amount of
white you wear. If, you are required to wear a white coat as part of your uniform, you should buy stock in bleach
companies now. It'll subsidize your retirement.
11. Don’t Expect
Applause.You may not always be told if
you are doing a good job. Nurses usually work alone
with little or no supervision so don’t count on someone
patting you on the back if you’re doing a good job; if you still have a job, you must be
doing it good enough.
12. How To Look Things Up
Nursing school doesn’t teach you how to look things up. The truth is there’s just too much to learn in too little time. The rest needs to be
researched on the fly. Every nurse needs some way to do this. Too many nurses enter
the field expecting they should already know enough to thrive in the workplace.
Not true.
13.Nasty pressure ulcers
Those pictures you see in textbooks don’t do pressure ulcers justice. You’ll have to
use a variety of instruments and there’s
nothing quite like sticking six inches of q-tip into a
tunneling wound, or cleaning out infectious goo
using just bravery and a handful of saline flushes.
14. If you hate it, you can always do
something else.
If you don't feel like you're a fish finally dropped into water, you
don't need to be doing this for a living. It's too hard, and the
money's not as good as other professions. At any point in school
or in your career, you are certainly allowed to back out
and go be something else.
15. Be Proud!
Be proud of your nursing degree, but do not let initials define you never minimize
the nurse who has two years of schooling instead of four
listen completely and respectfully to everyone.
There will be a lot of great opportunities coming your
way. So keep your head high!
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Do you know any other things Nursing school didn’t teach you?
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