Tag: training
Are You a Life Saver?
As a nurse, lives are constantly placed in your caring hands. When faced with a time-sensitive emergency, do you have the confidence it takes to save a life? A patient in cardiac arrest has only four minutes until brain damage begins to occur. If your patient is brought to you having already been in cardiac arrest for a substantial amount of time, you must be equipped with the knowledge to ensure your CPR abilities are up to task.
You may see many cardiac arrest victims arrive when working in a hospital, surrounded by equipment and colleagues. However, you must be prepared for an emergency, as cardiac arrest can happen to anyone at any time. If a critical situation occurs in public, you have the advantage of being a nurse. Unfortunately, over time, simple facts learned in medical training years prior begin to fade. Refresh your memory with these quick and easy facts to become a better life saver now.
How to know that nursing is your calling?
Remember the time you were admitted in a hospital? Who was the first person to attend to you? The person who waited with you till the doctor came? It’s the same person who was there to hold your hands, when you got injection in middle of the night. Yes, it was a nurse who took care you. Do you see yourself as doing something to similar nature in the future? If the answer is yes, know that irrespective of what salaries and perks you will get, nursing is not an easy task. If you too are one of those who have heard glorious things about the work, but are still unsure if that is you, this article might help in deciding. Here are a few things that nurses do every day, let’s see if you can do them too.
Will Hiring Overseas Fix the Nursing Shortage Crisis in the UK?
A year doesn’t go by without a un-PC gaffe by Prince Philip, and 2013 was no different. Philip’s first royal engagement of the year was to open a £5.5 million cardiac centre at Luton hospital back in February. Upon meeting a Filipino nurse, the 91 year old royal commented that the Philippines “must be half empty – you’re all here running the NHS!” The gaffe was taken in good humour, but revealed a lot about the rise of overseas workers, especially nurses, in the NHS. read more …
Why Your Nursing Clinicals May Have Been Counterproductive.
In an article on the issue of nursing students being treated harshly in the clinical setting, one of the problems that the authors discuss is the fact that undue stress is being placed on the students. This has the effect of thwarting their learning experience by putting a strain on student-staff relationships which are an integral part of a student’s clinical experience (Levett-Jones 2009). read more …
Gaining the Experience Before the Job.
It’s a catch 22. As new nursing grads we are try to get jobs but are being told that we need experience. But to get experience we need jobs. The issue is how to create a portfolio which will show that you are not still wet behind the ears.
One practical tip is to volunteer in the emergency medical field. Volunteering at the local ambulance station can provide much of the same critical care experience that one would find in an emergency room. In addition to becoming comfortable with diagnosing and first aid, the emergency medical field is an experience which exposes you to higher stress than you’d find in the controlled environment of a hospital. I can tell you from firsthand experience that there is a noticeable difference between the new grads just starting on the floor and the nurses who’ve been in the field.
The second major advantage is read more …
