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BSN Clinical Rotation Guide: What to Expect in Each Specialty

Registered Nursing

Clinical rotations form the backbone of your BSN education, transforming theoretical knowledge into practical nursing skills. As a nursing student, these immersive experiences across various healthcare specialties provide essential hands-on training while helping you identify potential career paths.

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Maximizing the Nurse-Patient Relationship

Daily Nurse

The patient and family experience during clinical training is often dictated by preceptors’ beliefs and training. Most nurses can relate, but some may have been lucky enough to attend a program that discussed communication, empathy, emotional and relational intelligence, and nurse-patient relationships.

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Nurse leadership: Pitfalls and solutions

American Nurse

Stepping into a formal leadership role is exciting. Many of your finely honed nursing skills will serve you well as a manager, but you’ll still have gaps. This atmosphere will prompt nurses to leave the organization or even the profession. Consider these solutions to three common mistakes.

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Mentorship: A strategy for nursing retention

American Nurse

Mentoring programs can strengthen the nursing workforce sustainably from within the profession. Learning Objectives Explain the ramifications of current nurse turnover rates. Define the differences between mentorship and preceptor programs, and the benefits of implementing a mentorship program.

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Best Online Faith-Based Online Nurse Practitioner Schools in 2025

Registered Nursing

Students complete over 700 clinical hours with expert preceptors, focusing on critical care, trauma, and hospital medicine. Students gain hands-on training with physician and NP preceptors, preparing them for specialized healthcare roles. Graduates can pursue further education with the DNP program.

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How to Become a Registered Nurse

Every Nurse

Five Steps to Become a Registered Nurse To be successful as a registered nurse and thrive in a healthcare environment with constantly changing demands, you must build a strong clinical and non-clinical foundation. However, a bachelor of science in nursing program will include some courses that aren’t offered by a standard ADN program.

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How to Become a Critical Care Nurse

Every Nurse

In this post, we cover the four main steps you need to know about how to become a critical care nurse. Become a Critical Care Nurse in Four Steps Caring for severely ill or injured patients requires a combination of advanced nursing skills, extensive clinical experience, and expert knowledge of specialized medical equipment.

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