What will I need for my first day at work?

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Hey all, I'm job hunting now but can't get the first day out of my mind. Feel good about skills and passed the NCLEX-PN, curious what supplies you all think I'll need to have. My idea:

  • notebook for brain
  • stethoscope
  • medical tape
  • bandage scissors
  • multicolored pens

Excessive? Missing something?

Also curious what skills if any you all think that I should be reviewing while I job hunt to make sure I'm ready to go. Thanks for any suggestions!

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Just a thought: keep a pair of clean scrubs and socks in your car. You never know what will happen...it's best to be prepared. :)

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I still use my white pocket protector I got from nursing school. In it I keep a sharpie, 2 black pens (we aren't allowed to use blue ink), 4 highlighters (pink, yellow, orange, blue), a red pen (I use this to mark anything that happens on my shift on my report paper), bandage scissors, and important cheat sheets I got in school (I fold them up and stick them in the back pocket).

As for procedures or skills to review if working in a nursing home: inserting catheters or strait cath, suctioning and trach care, feeding tubes, IM, sub-q, and intradermal injections are just some of the things you will run across. It is nice to review these but you will learn a lot at your job.

I still ask for someone to come with me if I am doing a procedure that I've never done or haven't done since clinical. Most nurses are very kind about helping.

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Don't bring your own tape. It's the facility's responsibility to provide supplies!

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Hey all, I'm job hunting now but can't get the first day out of my mind. Feel good about skills and passed the NCLEX-PN, curious what supplies you all think I'll need to have. My idea:

[*]notebook for brain

[*]stethoscope

[*]medical tape

[*]bandage scissors

[*]multicolored pens

Excessive? Missing something?

Also curious what skills if any you all think that I should be reviewing while I job hunt to make sure I'm ready to go. Thanks for any suggestions!

For my first day of work I am taking my medication book and pdq for reference besides my own stethescope pens highlighters, etc.

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