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What Nursing School Doesn’t Prepare You For with Nurse Brenden

What Nursing School Doesn’t Prepare You For with Nurse Brenden8 apr21 min

Nursing school can teach you the steps, but it can’t recreate the moment someone asks you to “boost the patient” and you realize you’ve never done it on a real person. We sit down with Brenden and talk about graduating in the COVID era of online nursing school, the confidence gap that shows up on day one, and how a solid preceptor can make the difference between drowning and growing. Then we get into med-surg nursing, the specialty people love to hate and secretly need. We unpack why med-sur...