Are you a nursing student wondering if you have what it takes? A new graduate who passed boards and is still waiting to feel like a real nurse? A nurse in your first two years who needs someone to tell you the honest truth about this calling?
This book was written for you.
Nursing school prepares students for clinical work. What it rarely prepares them for is everything else, the fear, the transition, the NCLEX anxiety, the colleagues who are not rooting for them, the seasons of depletion and self doubt that threaten the very passion that brought them to nursing in the first place.
Christine N. Malone, MSN, RN has been navigating those seasons for thirty six years.
As a single mother who walked through nursing school facing racial injustice and personal adversity, who sat for NCLEX twice, LPN and then RN school, who was placed on probation for a skill she had never performed before, who survived the loneliest professional seasons with her passion and her faith intact, and who went on to earn her Master of Science in Nursing and spend decades training, precepting and mentoring the next generation of nurses, Christine knows the road nursing students are on from the inside.
In these eleven chapters she shares what nursing school never taught her.