Wow, lots of good advise from all of our fellow nurses. I have been a preceptor for many years. I have worked with very prepared new grads, and some that should have repeated their last semester of...
Depending on the program, a medical assistant is taught a variety of skills. I'm currently an instructor in a MA program and the program is very well rounded, including clinical skills, phlebotomy,...
The pinning ceremony is the right of passage from being a "student nurse" to being a graduate nurse. My school had a separate pinning and graduation from the college. Your pin represents the program...
At our community hospital bed control calls with the bed assignment, then ER call to tell us they are tubing report and then the patient arrives approximately 15 minutes