Comments on: What I Wish I’d Learned in Nursing School

By: g. Bottomley

g. Bottomley — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:38:43 +0000

When I graduated nursing school, my instructor told us: remember that your license simply says that you are minimally qualified. I found that when I went into the hospital arena, my most supportive mentor was the LPN on the unit. Seh was willing to teach me, take the time with me, and encourage me. I continued that for other new nurses. I hope it helped.

By: Silver

Silver — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:04:10 +0000

Although its taken me a while, all that advice about time management and efficiency finally sunk in recently.

Try to think ahead/anticipate. When you can it will allow you to work smarter – not harder!

By: Angie

Angie — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:57:48 +0000

The biggest change for me was moving provinces to work in my home town. The culture of a big teaching hospital was very consistent and centered on excellence. My own hospital was semi rural. I spent a lot of energy trying to keep up my standards in the face of bullying and belittling. I wish I had just moved to a better hospital and found my niche. Instead I quit to raise my kids. But I’m back doing my refresher after 10 years, and you’re not going to stop me this time.

By: NurseSusan

NurseSusan — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:51:25 +0000

Having just qualified loads and loads of things. In particular, assertiveness skills.

By: Lucky

Lucky — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:05:08 +0000

I feel I had an excellent nursing education, but now that I’m practicing every day I find precious little consistency when it comes to terminology.

For instance, no two nurses have the same idea of how to describe wounds. Same goes for drainage/discharge. Again, with petichiae for instance, no two people seem to describe the same thing in the same way. And please don’t even get me started on breath sounds.

I find this very distracting when attempting to chart effectively and it also gets in the way when I’m communicating with other nurses or physicians.

By: n00bienurse

n00bienurse — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:28:35 +0000

time management!!!