Pinned!
December 19, 2010 -- Today was nursing school pinning (that's what nurses call graduation.) Now I have the "N" in "RN"... To get the "R", I will soon take the NCLEX, the State Board exam that gets me my license to actually do nursing work.
It doesn't need to be this way; nursing education could be effective. My school was mediocre but (and I have evidence for this) they all are. But that's a topic for a different discussion... For now, I am just celebrating. Hurray for pinning! |
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Dan Keller's Nursing, Health Policy & Healthcare Technology Blog
Nursing Informatics · Clinical Perspectives · Healthcare Systems
"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed according to medical need." — JAMA (2003), 290, 798
What's remarkable is how little we new grad nurses know about how to
do the work nurses do... Especially given the $52K/yr we've spent to
get here. Hospitals are reluctant to hire us because we are nearly
useless. Hiring us is a big commitment because hospitals must make
such a big investment in us (lots of mentoring and initially low
productivity) to get us up to speed.