KaitRN17

I'm a brand new nurse and am on the Telemetry unit of my hospital. They don't offer a nurse residency program here, but I feel like I'm struggling to learn while I work. It wouldn't be so bad if we didn't have 5-6 patients every day all with cardiac issues or recovering from caths. It's hard to retain anything when you're scrambling the entire day just trying to make it through... I would like to learn on my off days at home. Are there any resources like certain books Cardiac nurse residency programs use that I could buy to help me? P.s My orientation is ending in about 2 weeks and this is much more difficult than I ever anticipated . I had no idea just how much nurses have to do every day along with fielding calls throughout the whole shift. Any advice for how to organize yourself? Or keep information at hand for when the doctors call? Thank you!