Chandlrb

The reality is tough. Way tougher than we were told when we started this program 4 years ago (I graduate in 17 days.) I got a job Thursday :) and I worked really hard for it. I am one of the very fortunate in my class of 200+. Get experience as a tech, volunteer, make connections, and be flexible.

Thanks!

Hello. Working on my last big evidence based project here. I have to decide today what I will call my project. It is a 10 page evidence based research paper. I will be presenting it to the nursing leaders and administrators of the hospital where I am doing clinical. I am nervous. I am doing the research on reducing the incidence of missed orders, to include discussions on which system is better for classifying charts with new orders (no physician order entry here), implementing shift audits where nurses check charts together, walking rounds, etc. I know this is silly but they are posting the title of my project on all the managers' calendars and I just want it to sound put together and interesting. Here are a few I am thinking about: Missed Orders: Reducing Their Occurrence Making Missed Orders A Thing of The Past Reducing Missed Orders, Improving Patient Care Any ideas? It doesn't have to be one of those. :) Thanks!

I think that the nursing schools are beginning to change the way they do things. I know mine has. I am about to graduate in May. My school (a state university with a BSN program) upped the clinical hours required of final semester seniors this year from 90 to 192. We are required to spend the time with an assigned preceptor, and we have to work the same shift the preceptor works. So I have been working 12 hour days two days a week since February. I now take my preceptor's full patient load, and am absolutely amazed at how far I've come in the past few months. I am ready to be a floor nurse. The great thing is, my education also included critical thinking and theory, which I believe has value. I cannot say enough good things about my school and how prepared I feel!