Up to Date Nursing Experience how to
Nurses must find ways to keep up with the latest treatments. The world is changing fast and so is the world of medicine. If a nurse is out of the system for only a few months and goes back to work, she will find noticeable differences in techniques and and will for a week or so feel slightly inadequate. Answering this need, most hospitals are required to keep their staff up to date with ongoing in-service programs. This is true of every facet of the nursing experience. Yet, the sole responsibility is often up to her.
As an example, all nurses on an orthopedic floor of a well run hospital will be required to know of the latest procedures and the best way of tending to fractured limbs and other means of working with their patients. Heavy equipment is all around and that also means heavy studying and keeping up with the latest developments. (Tip 1. Do not be put off by what you don't know. Ask for guidance and learn all you can and be ready for the next time this same problem arises.)
Not wanting to frighten away the tender bunch of would be nurses, but nursing is a heavy duty subject whether we are dealing with the mechanics of patient lifts, transport systems, the medicine cart, computer software or whatever else is needed to adequately care those who cannot care for themselves. Even off-the-cuff articles is not out of the question where they are indicated. (tip 2. Look at all assignments from a different level. In a hospital setting learn how you would handle this particular situation if you were working with the patient at home. Knowing, in fact that situation could arise. Nurse and scouts call this being ready.)
Nurses fresh out of school and beginning their work as bona fide RNs or LPNs are pretty much acquainted with the overall medical field and will no doubt have preferences as to where to fit in their studies. Some may go go into teaching and will need further education others will prefer simply to be a bedside nurse. No matter, each will have to keep up with their education. Institutions where one will expect to be hired may elect to take nurses right out of school and in this way hope to have a qualified nursing staff. No matter, ongoing education is a must. (Tip 3. Be your own keeper of your educational tools. Learn all you can from every situation and mentally file it away for a possible future use.)
Keeping up on the latest trends and how to implement it into their jobs is the responsibility of the nurse and what she or he wants to make of it. The teaching programs may be in place but if the staff do not care enough to learn, whose responsibility is it? Nurses as a whole take their assignments seriously and they have no problems understanding the need for keeping themselves up to date with what is changing in their chosen field of work. They will of course have their priorities and will be more interested in what facet of health care they are directly involved in than in nursing. (Tip 4. Be alert. Avail yourself to every opportunity to learn whether it be lectures you are forced to attend, literature about the latest medication out, new and revised techniques, or whatever.)
Simply to have persevered throughout the rigorous training sessions and the large amount of necessary learning that must be accomplished in relatively short lengths of time prove that nurses as a dedicated group are able to withstand and cope with most situations. They will be ready when needed. It is this one thing that sets nurses apart from the general population. Their caring attitude is what started them on the road to education in nursing and is what will guide their lifelong studies. (Tip 5. Be appreciative of your own efforts and do not sell yourself short while at the same time not making yourself a nuisance to your non-nurse friends and possibly your less studious nursing friends.
Gradually their interests and ideas and expectations will change as they mature and learn more about their life choice to become nurses but their desire to get at the details and to learn more is so ingrained into their very fiber, they but cannot rise to whatever educational challenge coming their way. Be it writing about swine flu, helping a neighbor understand his need for such and such medication, or explaining about the necessity for certian diets, nurses, as a rule, will be in there reading, evaluating and thinking about how to do their job of being nurses better. (tip 6. Be innovative in your studies and do not allow your life to become dull. Do this whether or not you are working full time, part time or even when retired. Allow the fact that you are a nurse become a part of your life. You never know when it will become a handy tool to explore once again.)
