Happy #NursesDay! May 6 is designated as Nurses Day in the U.S. to celebrate the nursing profession and to raise awareness of the important role nurses play in society around the world. Nurses Week runs through May 12 each year which is the birthday of Florence Nightingale ( May 12, 1820). One of components of a Nurses Day celebration is reciting or reading for The Nightingale Pledge which is also known as the Nurse’s Oath: I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and…
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Time Management Skills Ebook from Kathy Quan
Time management skills are not easily taught in nursing school. Often because nursing students may be assigned only 1-3 patients at a time, and this barely approaches the real world scenarios that new grads are thrust into. (And remain for the duration.) Organizational skills are the heart of the process of managing time, and if you are not organized, you will never manage your time effectively and efficiently. Communication is another key element and inherent in effective communication is listening as well as speaking. Communication is an art that requires constant practice. And the third major point is expecting the unexpected which is almost a guarantee every single shift in…