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Dear Student Thinking About Future Employment,

This is a great time to be gearing up for your first nursing job. There are several things you can do to boost your marketability and employability upon graduation

Listed below please find three common mistakes that have gotten many nurses an appearance before the Licensing Board. And this trio of simple tips will help you avoid making them. These tips seem like common sense but they are so easily overlooked.

Documentation in nursing is a key factor in our role and responsibility as a patient care advocates. It is critical for determining if the standard of care was rendered to a patient to defend prior nursing actions. Failure to chart, omissions, and poor communication are hard to defend.

In the healthcare setting, life-or-death situations can mean super-charged emotions, and it’s not just from patients. It can even be from fellow team members and your nurse manager. Hence, expressing these emotions properly is important, especially in different forms of communication in nursing. These include body language such as facial expressions, gestures, eye contact, posture, and the tone of our voice.

Tax prep is about as fun as getting a physical or renewing a driver’s license. Sorting through a year’s worth of receipts and paperwork can be confusing and leave you with the nagging feeling that you’ve missed out on meaty refund dollars or paid more than required.