What Will A Nurse Do On Their First Day?
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To become a nurse these days you need to go through a great deal of training both in the classroom and on the job. So the first few years are spent in a mixture of clinical and academic surroundings. However, once they have qualified and been accepted for a job in a hospital, their first day is likely to involve a mixture of the following. <br/><br/> Learn the Unit <br/><br/> One of the first thing any nurse has to do as soon as she starts working, whether it's her first job or her 51st, is to get to know their way around the building. This is because they may be involved in some kind of emergency straight away and will need to know where medication is, where all equipment is kept, where different rooms are and where doctors are likely to be at any one time. <br/><br/> Get to Know Staff <br/><br/> Getting to know all the staff is incredibly important. Nurses work very long shifts with a big team so really need to get to know each other quickly so that they can get on. This becomes especially important in emergency situations as they need to know each person's strengths and weaknesses, both professionally and personally. <br/><br/> Procedure Meetings <br/><br/> Every hospital has slightly different ways of doing things and for a nurse, who is involved in most of these; there will be a great deal of meetings to be had to go over these finer points. Without this detailed analysis of things like chain of command, responsibilities for different teams and clinical efficiency, crucial seconds could be lost when things get busy. These meetings might all be done in a row or be spread over a number of days. <br/><br/> Shadowing <br/><br/> If this is a nurse's very first time working in a hospital they will probably spend their first day shadowing someone who is already doing the same job as they have been hired to do. This will be to help them get used to the pace of a particular department and to help introduce them to patients individually if they are working on a ward. <br/><br/> No Breaks <br/><br/> As it is a particularly busy day, chances are that the nurse will not have a chance to have any breaks. This is normally because any time allotted for breaks will be spent filling in forms, finding their bearings and maybe getting to know people they will be working with. Particularly for NHS nursing jobs this can be a trying time with the large scale of the area of employment. Different branches of nursing such as social care or home nursing jobs can have very different arrangements for first days. <br/><br/> It is a stressful day but is the gateway to a rewarding job. <br/><br/> <br/><br/>
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Sam Qam is looking for home nursing jobs. He has done many NHS nursing jobs in the past but has decided that home nursing care is where his heart lies.
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