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Top 10 Attributes of a Great Nurse

Diversity Nursing

Here are 10 attributes needed to be a great Nurse! High-Quality Communication Skills: A great Nurse must be proficient in effective communication. Nurses are often the liaison between doctors, patients, and families, so they must be able to convey information clearly to avoid errors or miscommunications.

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Take Ownership of Your Nursing Knowledge and Skills

Minority Nurse

In nursing school, you studied and read like a madperson, wrote care plans (sorry to bring that up), learned to apply the nursing process (you may be sorry I brought that up), and turned your non-nurses mind into a nurse’s mind. What sticks with you?

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Why You Should Work as a CNA While in Nursing School

Diversity Nursing

However, Nursing students who have worked as CNAs have first-hand experience interacting with patients and do not have to spend their time in the clinical setting adapting to patient interactions. They can instead spend their time in the clinical setting developing other Nursing skills.

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Oncology nursing: Clinical assistant onboarding

American Nurse

Takeaways: Early introduction to oncology nursing should be included in nursing school curricula. Cancer care includes complex communication, and nurses require skills training equipped help them have these conversations with patients. The organization offered the paid internship to senior nursing students.

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Use keywords to help readers find your work

American Nurse

I hope to make it less so and to help you develop your writing skills the same way you’ve developed your nursing skills. The nurse publishing colleagues I’ve learned from over the years (many of whom are contributors to my book) may not be listed by name, but I’m grateful for their willingness to share. In: Saver C.

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Proofreading: A quality-improvement tool to ensure accuracy

American Nurse

Sometimes italics are “lost” when going from document to layout.) I hope to make it less so and to help you develop your writing skills the same way you’ve developed your nursing skills. (Sometimes they can get cut off when imported into the layout program.) Are online links in the article correct?

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Tips for successful interprofessional collaborative writing: Part 1

American Nurse

Tools such as Dropbox Paper or Google Docs for sharing documents can facilitate collaboration. If everyone is going to simply work in Word, establish a naming convention to avoid confusion as to which document is the most recent (for instance, lungcancerv.1, Above all, document your kick-off discussion for future reference.