New graduate. CSI Nursing

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As a new graduate, what are some tips you guys have to help coworkers respect and look up to you as team member?

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

Crime Scene Investigative nursing?!:yes:

What is CSI nursing?

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Are you talking about College of Staten Island?

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It is the College of Southern Idaho

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

And this is the issue with using nontraditional abbreviations in an international forum. I would never have guessed Southern Idaho. As an East Coaster, Staten Island maybe but crime scene investigation/forensic nursing was my first guess too.

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As a new graduate, what are some tips you guys have to help coworkers respect and look up to you as team member?

Ok, moving off of the weird abbreviations for now, LOL....if you want respect, you have to earn it, naturally!

Be prompt. Be attentive. Be willing to take direction, not insist you already know this or that, no need to learn how your unit does things. If someone is willing to teach, be prepared to listen!

Offer to help. If someone is drowning, don't pretend you don't notice if you do. If you need help, ASK. Don't assume someone else has figured that out.

Come prepared with whatever you'll need; repeatedly asking for a pen, postits, calculator, whatever gets old fast.

Smile, be friendly but don't do overkill. If someone wants to get to know you better, that's great, but don't assume because they don't that they are mean or rude. They don't know you yet, and you will need time to work into their graces, so to speak.

Polite, friendly, prepared, eager to learn.....and then you'll be golden :)

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