Nurses are made, not born. Some people may find our job easy while some say they can’t do what we do. But the question is, how someone could really be a nurse?
There’s nursing school where we learn all the technical nursing stuff and then there’s the whole world where we learn all the other things we never learned in Nursing school.
Here are 10 essential things every new nurse should know now:
1. Never apologize for doing your job.
2. Never forget that you are caring for a fellow human being.
3. You must to learn how to walk fast.
4. You must to learn how to eat fast.
5. Take the time to auscultate well.
6. Never take your bad day out on your patients.
7. Get used to not knowing everything. That’s normal.
8. If you are not a coffee drinker, you will be very soon.1
9. Nursing is a 24-hour job; do not expect to get it all done in one shift.
10. Listen to what the nurse tells you about your patient and look at their chart for past surgeries. You do not want to go into your patients room and do a head to toe assessment and ask a double amputee about the strength in his legs.
Being a nurse is not easy. You have to understand that your job is not just to take care of people or make them feel better, but to actually make them feel that you are there for them whenever they need you.
What else should someone know to be a nurse? Share your thoughts with us!