Learning how to be a nurse is often described as one of the most difficult learning curves a person can experience.
After graduation, skills are acquired at a lightning pace. Patients are admitted to your unit, often needing specialized medicines, advanced breathing, or technology for monitoring. How do you stay afloat while handling the day?
13 Rules for ICU Nursing offers a different framework for skills often not acquired during nursing school. Writer and clinical instructor, Dr. Nicole Sunderland draws from her students feedback and own experiences to offer invaluable lessons for the student nurse, new graduate nurse, and experienced nurses stepping into critical care.
This book helps answer the need for skills necessary to be a charge nurse, skills for overcoming self-doubt, skills driving the importance of prioritizing time and so much more. With over 10 years of clinical nursing knowledge, teaching and research leading to the creation of this book, you are sure to find something of value to add to your career.
CHAPTER 1 Don’t Poke the Bear
CHAPTER 2 Walk Quickly and With Gusto, Don’t Trip
CHAPTER 3 We Don’t Have Beds for That
CHAPTER 4 Prepare for Failure
CHAPTER 5 The Work Isn’t Over
CHAPTER 6 Fake It, Till You Make It
CHAPTER 7 It’s Not About You (It’s All the Little Things)
CHAPTER 8 Question Everything
CHAPTER 9 Somedays You Can’t
CHAPTER 10 When in Doubt, Put Gloves On
CHAPTER 11 Be Clean
CHAPTER 12 Be Nice
CHAPTER 13 Play Like a Champion
NICOLE
SUNDERLAND
Dr. Nicole Sunderland is a critical care nurse, clinical instructor, content expert, leader, author and international speaker. She is the host of The Virtual Clinical Podcast, a podcast for student nurses and soon-to-be registered nurses. She earned her Doctorate of Nursing Practice through the University of Pennsylvania where she was a Perry World House Graduate Associate. She is certified in critical care and stroke nursing. Her work can be found on the Health Podcast
Network, MyAmericanNurse.com, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and many
other areas of nursing.