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Preparation for Licensure and Transition to Professional Practice

Preparation for Licensure and Transition to Professional Practice

Throughout my semester of taking multiple ATI Practice and Adaptive Assessments and reviewing their Individual Performance Profiles, I was better able to adapt my test taking skills. I was able to recognize that I needed to really slow down when I was taking test questions in order to ensure that I read and understood questions fully. The IPP reports also helped me to identify trends in missed concepts, so I knew to remediate those topics well and really do in…

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Clinical Exemplar

Clinical Exemplar

This Clinical Exemplar is a story about a patient that really left their mark on me. It talks about my interactions with them and how it was one of those few life-changing moments where I realized the impact that I had on this patient, and how special it was for me. It was truly an eye-opening moment for me, when I again realized that being an RN is not just a job for me, it’s a calling and a passion….

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Attaining and Protecting my Professional Nursing License

Attaining and Protecting my Professional Nursing License

After graduating nursing school in May, I plan to become licensed in the state of New Hampshire as I have already accepted a job there. New Hampshire is luckily a Nurse Licensure Compact state, which will make career changes down the road much easier for me. Unfortunately, New Hampshire requires a paper-based application for Licensure by Examination for all Registered Nurses. The application initially required an FBI criminal background check with fingerprinting; however, with COVID-19, I believe they are postponing…

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Prepare for Transition!

Prepare for Transition!

Graduating in May is supposed to be a very exciting time for us college graduates! However, I feel particularly hung up on the fact that I have so much to do in the next 5 months that will carve out the path to my future. I’m most excited about being able to finally feel like an independent adult. These past four years have taught me so much, but finally being responsible for a 40-hour a week job in which I’m…

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Empathy and Compassion Paper

Empathy and Compassion Paper

Clinical Event             Through the many patients that I cared for this past semester during clinical, there was one day and one patient in particular that stood out to me. I believe I provided empathetic and compassionate care to them; and I also felt as though I made the biggest difference in this patient’s experience. This patient was a lovely older woman who had previously lived alone and presented with the inability to walk and with delirium. The prognosis for my…

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Art and Nursing

Art and Nursing

This piece of artwork speaks to me about nursing is many different ways. The tree itself represents growth upward, in a positive direction. It also shows how many different paths a nurse can take in their career path. Whether you want to become an advanced practicing nurse, or take an administrative role, or leadership role. Those are only a few, there’s so many other paths one can take! Nursing is such a broad term, and I think a tree does…

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