#20: How to Be a Rockstar in Nursing School Clinicals

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Straight A Nursing

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🗓️ 1 August 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This podcast covers my best advice for being a rockstar in your nursing school clinicals. If you're like me, you are VERY nervous about starting clinicals...whether it's your first semester or your last. Making sure you are prepped to do and BE your absolute best ensures you get the most out of this very valuable time. Listen to this podcast to get my most USEFUL tips for rocking those nursing school clinicals! ___________________ FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! Crucial Concepts Bootcamp - Start nursing school ahead of the game, or reset after a difficult first semester with my nursing school prep course, Crucial Concepts Bootcamp. Learn key foundation concepts, organization and time management, dosage calculations, and so much more. Nursing School Thrive Guide - Get the book that many nursing students consider the ultimate survival guide for nursing school! Available in paperback, Kindle and audio formats. 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever wished that you had a direct line to your pediatrician to ask all the questions that constantly crop up while parenting? We sure have.
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0:16.3	pediatric question in five minutes or less.
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0:24.8	So be sure to tune in to Bites of Health.
0:28.1	Streaming Now. You're going to go. Hey there guys, guys. Welcome to episode 20 of the Straight Aid Nursing Podcast.
0:55.0	So glad that you're here.
0:57.0	So it's summer, right?
0:59.0	And a lot of you are not in school, but you're probably gearing up to start back in a few weeks and you might be thinking
1:08.4	about clinicals, especially if it is your first semester.
1:13.8	When I was a nursing student, I was really confident
1:17.8	in my skills as a student,
1:20.3	and all of you probably are, because you had to work so hard and be such excellent students.
1:29.6	Just to even get into the program, you had to be on top of your game. You know how to do this. You know
1:36.0	how to prep before class. You know how to show up and be totally present. You know how to
1:42.2	review material, study for exams, all of that stuff.
1:46.7	But clinicals is a whole other thing and if you haven't spent any time in a hospital as a volunteer or
1:54.8	CNA, then walking into a hospital for that first day
2:01.9	as a clinical student can be so terrifying and nerve-wracking.
2:07.5	I remember when I was a student we had our preclinical conference every morning before we went up to the floors and it was I think we had to be there about 6.30 in the morning, 6.15.
2:22.0	And my stomach was in knots every time, every single time.
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