What is your best advice for a nursing student or new nurse?

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Hello all!

I am currently in my first semester of nursing school and so far so good! For my informatics class, we needed to join a nursing listserv and complete an assignment following that. My question for you all is "What is the best advice for a nursing student or new nurse?" Please only real answer as this is an assignment! Thank you all and have a great day!

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There is no dumb question. You could be the top practicing/research Doctor in your field, drugs, techniques, therapies, instruments, change, it is not dumb to say, I don't know about that, can you tell me what it is, how it works, why you are doing it that way, etc.

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Specializes in ICU.

These are real answers:

Start off in an academic medical center. Avoid the community hospitals at all costs because most of them need to be shut down for fraudulent practices and they treat nurses like ****.

Epic EMR is phenomenal. The rest are crap.

Magnet status is a joke. See recent thread for details.

*Go to a highly marketable specialty in which there are no visitors, time limited pt encounters, and the pts are NPO so that the food and beverage server demands are minimal to none. Oncall and call back pay is significant.

OR, PACU, pre-OP, IR, or Cath Lab or EP lab, even the Endo Suite are your best bet for being treated like a human being in 2016.

Washington State, Massachusetts and California have unions and nurse patient ratios. Youre crazy to work anywhere that doesnt.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

Answer: Despite your instructors' optimism, this is a crappy assignment.

You have NO idea who we are. You have absolutely no way of validating our claims of being nurses. I personally have seen folks register here in order to play games with folks and actively play the role of troll.

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

Do not take the "nurses eating their young" phrase into your mind.

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

And don't assume we are nurses. This is an online board. You have no way of being sure who we are, as stated above.

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