Efforts beyond standard nursing curriculum and CEU's is wasted because nurses don't need more than that
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A nurse should continualy increase their knolwedge base through self study using media, conferences, mentors, textbooks and generraly anything that they can learn.
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What a nurse learns on the job is all you need to be medicaly competent because nursing is "hands on" learning.
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I have an assortment of reference materials and ocassionaly peek at them when I have nothing better to do.
I'm really not shocked that nobody here seems to be expanding on their base knowledge. Nursing school isn't all easy and the strain you can feel in the "real" world of nursing once you hit the floor and all the new skills to master can make continuing education look like just an annoyance to satisfy licensing requirements, but once you've settled into a daily routine don't you get curiouse about some of those "blank spots" that seem vaguely like something you used to be intimately familiar? Don't you always have something to learn?
There must be somebody out there that is using some time to better themselves as practitioners.................do I have the wrong audience? Perhapse no good can come of knowledge outside of curriculum as a nurse. Maybe that's just reserved for the doctors and wannabees......uhmm?
Let's find out.
P.S.
If you would please show the board what you use to expand your skills and how you utilize them......Texts, CD-roms, programs....ETC
teeituptom, BSN, RN
4,283 Posts
Howdy Yall
from deep in the heart of texas
Obtaining CEUs, is fun. Me, I love to go to seminars, see friends who have moved on to other jobs, meet other nurses, etc.
besides who says an old dog like me, cant learn new tricks , so I can stay ahead of all the young pups
keep it in the short grass yall
teeituptom