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Can either of you ask for an orientation period before being released on your own to the floor? With the nursing shortage, I'm sure it is possible. They'll do what they need to get you there.... I'm a new nurse and find that Springhouses' Portable RN is a good book for the usual tasks nurses use daily.
Hi, I had 2 days supernumery and that was it. Our ward, on a good day, is staffed by Agency 50%, on a bad day 6 out of 8 nurses would be agency or pool. It has so much to offer, so much variety and a huge amount of nursing skills to use and perfect. The patients aren't really that heavy (probably 1 in 4) whereas in Neuro it was 4 in 4 .
I think I am going to have to continue reading. I have saved alot of my handover sheets so I can look stuff up.
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I have been a registered nurse since 1989 and specialised in Neuroscience Nursing. I left after about 7 years and went to work in a non hospital setting that required very little nursing skills - blood taking and blood pressures only.
I have since returned to nursing in hospitals in the last few months but don't qualify for any special return to work training because I was never out of the nursing field. I don't want to go back to my specialty, I want to work in Medical and/or Surgical for a while. Currently, I am on a medical ward and have bought myself a few textbooks but I don't know where to start.
Can someone give me a hint or two.
I am from Australia.