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As of May 2014, the average Floral Designers brought home just shy of $25,010 a year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But earnings vary greatly by location, as employers must offer higher wages in certain areas of the country to attract qualified candidates. On average, the highest wages paid in floral designers were in Connecticut, District of Columbia, Alaska, California and Massachusetts.

Salary: $18,310 – $38,660
Min. Education: High school diploma or equivalent
Job Outlook 2014-24: -3% (Decline)
Related Careers:  Craft and Fine Artists, Fashion Designers, Graphic Designers, Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners

Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Data extracted on August 02, 2016

If you are not sure what your blood pressure should be or whether your pressure is a little lower or higher than it should be, take a look at this helpful chart which puts all the information neatly at your fingertips!

Procedure for Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI)

Rapid Sequence Intubation Algorithm

Here are a few things to remember and/or consider when taking on the role and responsibility of an EMS preceptor:

You were there once too. Remember your basic needs when you were the “BM” (baby medic): Support, instruction, guidance and encouragement go a long way. Ridicule, embarrassment and condescension will set you and your trainee back many shifts.

Confidence builds competence, but arrogance is dangerous. I will take a student who has a great attitude and is eager to learn but struggling to put things together, and work to build them up. A trainee who comes to the lion’s den with a chip on their shoulder and maintains a cocky attitude, sadly has to be broken down (even if relatively knowledgeable). Given good leadership and straight-forward direction, building them back up will hopefully get them walking on a humble and safe path. Karma is a killer in this field and arrogance will bite you in the butt.

There are different types of stress. Do not equate the fear of being eaten alive by their preceptor with a broader fear of running calls and making decisions. Knowing that you are being watched and critiqued causes even the best of practitioners to get nervous and fumble. “If you can’t handle this, you can’t handle the field,” you may argue. Well, no, not exactly. Some people are amazing test takers but can’t pull it all together when it really matters, while others are forward thinkers and do an incredible job of combining their didactic knowledge with real life.

Show them you’ve got their backs. When a trainee is on the call, everyone on-scene wants a piece of the pie. Don’t let other responders treat them like a piñata. They are your responsibility to not only educate, but also protect from others looking to inflate their own egos.

Be discrete. If a correction needs to be made, make it—especially if it involves safety or patient care—but discuss it in private. Humiliating the student in front of the patient and other crewmembers is not only unprofessional, but it will destroy the patient’s confidence in your care, is horrible for your agency’s public image and will damage your trainees’ (and others’) respect for you.

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!

Another NCLEX favorite and a real life saver is knowing the routes of medication administration as well as the different forms of medications. We know that we’ve been saying this again and again but only because this list really contains must-know concepts for nursing students.