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Specializes in MICU/SICU.

Hi I just wanted to say I love this site, and I find so much inspiration through many of your words. I'm about to graduate & I have accepted and ICU job working 12 hours nights 2500 miles away across the country. Thankfully, I will be going into a 6 month orientation. I am having moments of exhilaration along side of moments of sheer terror! Can anyone recommend any books for new nurses/ new ICU nurses?

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Specializes in Cardiology, Oncology, Medsurge.

This is only pleasure reading mind you:

Intensive Care: the story of a nurse

by Echo Heron

read this for play time not for prep time ok!

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Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

Do you have your ACLS? Its a good one to have, and the book is very straightforward. The course is expensive, but usually your hospital pays for it. You could probably get an older edition to review first on ebay or amazon.

Congratulations! :beer::w00t::cheers:

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You are probably looking for how-to books, which I don't know of any. But one of the best books I've ever read that helps me be a more compassionate nurse is called "My stroke of insight". The author has been on Oprah and this book is becoming very well known. The author is a neurologist who in her 30's had a massive stroke. By detailing what she experienced, and how she recovered, and how she felt and what she went through, she teaches you so many things that you just don't learn in nursing school. It's a pretty short book, I read it in a day, but the things I've learned have stayed with me to this moment.

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Specializes in MICU/SICU.

Thanks for the suggestions =)

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