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Training Wheels for Nurses: What I Wish I Had Known My First 100 Days on the Job: Wisdom, Tips, and Warnings from Experienced Nurses

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I picked this book up about 9 months after I started my first job as a nurse, so I had already been going through the "initiation" process. As I read this book, I was thinking "Gee, wish I had read this in the beginning, would have saved me a lot of trouble." Many of the blurbs (the book is a series of one page "blurbs" of advice grouped into categories) were just common sense items. However, many were "apples of gold" (a Biblical expression for well timed, encouraging words) and practical advice that I had just learned on my own through the "School of Hard Knox" (i.e., on the job). Had I read this earlier, my journey through that first year as a novice nurse might have been a little easier and a little less stressful. Great gift item for your graduating nursing student!

Nice set-up; nice reminders for a new nurse not to worry -- others have been where she's at now. It gives good advice in an easy format.
I'm so glad I picked up this book -- I will probably be reaping its benefits for a while!

What a wonderful way to learn from other nurses that nobody knows everything but we can learn from our mistakes and we strive to be the best we can be. As a DON, I recommend this to all nurses even experienced ones. A good read.

The book, while short contains good information that any nurse should know before starting work.

I liked this book! I'm in nursing school and it was interesting to see what "experience" had to say. It's an easy read, but very inspirational and good tips to "take away" from the book. I recommend it to nursing students and new graduates.

I really enjoyed the insights, although at times I felt I could have written this book myself. The writer obviously knows her stuff. Any body in nursing or nursing school should read this book.

I read this book once and that was enough. A lot of the "wisdom" I had already heard or read about somewhere else. Save your money.

I am not a new nurse, but I am a new school nurse and I was looking for a book to help me get organized and understand how to sort out what's important from what scares you. This book was in the School Nursing section so I "assumed" it was a book for new school nurses. That aside, overall the book was a series of short cute antecdotals that really could not help a new nurse except to maybe make him/her realize that being overwhelmed is expected. I think a new nurse needs real how-to get organized clues, like how to make a patient report list (e.g., patient name, age, sex, dx, meds, tx and times to be given). This was the thing that kept me from losing my mind when I was new. It's great to read about how one day you'll look back on this time of learning and laugh, but really, give the newbees some real advice.

I saw this book "Training Wheels for Nurses: What I Wish I Had Know My First 100 Days on the Job" in the paper several years ago. I saved it for my graduating student nurse daughter. I was quite surprised I could still get it. Thank you for having it available. It will be a great small gift for nurse-to-be.

This book was just OK, I read it as a new nurse, didn't really get a ton of info that I didn't already know.