Description
Book SynopsisHow to Thrive as a Newly Registered Nurse provides a structured programme of support for nursing students and newly registered nurses during their first year of registration. Fully updated and packed with practical examples, tips and advice, and featuring vignettes from recently registered nurses, this book will help you to:
- Choose your first nursing post and secure the job you really want
- Structure your learning and development in the early stages of your career
- Work in a team, prioritise your care-giving and delegate to others
- Understand safe staffing, patient acuity and dependency tools, care planning, and risk assessment tools
- Learn how to escalate concerns and report incidents
- Understand mental capacity assessment to guide your decisions in practice
- Understand how to access research opportunities and funding for education
- Plan your future professional development and career progression.
Here’s what some reviewers said: “…This book reads like you’ve got the loveliest mentor you’ve ever had holding your hand through the transition from student nurse to registered nurse. Just reading it made me feel calmer and better prepared about my imminent start. In my opinion Carol Forde-Johnston’s book is the best transition book I’ve read.”
“This book is well written and very helpful. I recommend it to all our preceptees and they are all grateful to the author for such a wonderful book. One of my preceptees called it a ‘manual for all new nurses’.”
“I noticed that it answered many of the questions I was always embarrassed to ask as I thought I should have already known those things.”
Drawing on over 34 years’ experience supporting students and newly registered nurses, Carol Forde-Johnston has written an accessible and practical book that aims to respond to the questions and concerns that her students and NRNs frequently raise – and to help you thrive as a newly registered nurse.
Table of ContentsAbout the author; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations
1. Choosing and securing your first nursing post
1.1 How to choose your first post
1.2 Your application and personal statement
1.3 Preparing for interviews as a newly registered nurse
2. Structuring your learning during your first three months registered
2.1 What to expect when you start
2.2 How to structure your learning in your first few months registered
3. Understanding the key structures in nursing
3.1 Past structures and influences on today's health care
3.2 Key local and national structures
3.3 Key types of nursing delivery systems
3.4 The differences between nursing roles
4. Understanding safe staffing and patient acuity and dependency tools
4.1 Past methods used to determine staffing levels for nurses
4.2 Staffing today's NHS
4.3 Important safe staffing guidance for nurses
4.4 Workforce planning and acuity and dependency tools
5. Team working: prioritising, delegating and coordinating care
5.1 Support in practice to develop your management and leadership skills
5.2 How to prioritise your care and manage your time
5.3 How to delegate to others
6. Record-keeping, care planning and clinical risk assessment tools
6.1 Past nursing documentation and use of Electronic Health Records today
6.2 The importance of record-keeping
6.3 The difference between 'good' and 'poor' record-keeping
6.4 Individualised care planning
6.5 The importance of clinical risk assessment tools
7. Assessing mental capacity and supporting those declining care
7.1 The case that led to changes in the law
7.2 Supporting an informed choice
7.3 The law and key policies
7.4 Assessing mental capacity
7.5 Making a decision on behalf of someone
7.6 The importance of record-keeping and follow-up
8. Understanding escalation and incident reporting
8.1 Patient deterioration and escalation
8.2 Incident reporting
8.3 De-escalating challenging situations
8.4 How to deal with a patient's death and a deceased body
9. Structuring your future learning and support after preceptorship period
9.1 Proactively structure your learning and development
9.2 What you should expect over the next year and onwards
10. Developing our practice and profession through future nursing research
10.1 Evidence-based practice
10.2 Research funding opportunities
10.3 Publishing your work in future
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