Well, hello again. I'm Nurse Move. We haven't met yet. And I am so glad that you are here joining me in episode 2-11 of the Straight A Nursing podcast.

Today we are diving into a much needed topic about the transition period from new grad to actual working nurse.

I'm going to talk about what to focus on in your first five shifts.

So even if you're not graduating soon, you can be thinking about these things because they can be kind of underlying what's going on as you're in clinical.

Because as you're a student in clinical, you're always thinking about how I'm going to take what I'm learning here and use it later when I'm the actual nurse, right?

So keep listening no matter where you are in your nursing school journey.

Now, before we jump in, I want to take a minute for a shout out to my San fam, that's my Straight A Nursing fam.

This one goes to Andrew, who wrote the most thoughtful words in the podcast review. So Andrew writes, hello, Nurse Move.

I'm a senior nursing student and I want to write the review to help bring to light how great and resourceful your podcast is for me and to thank you for being amazing.

I work on campus, which is a 30 minute commute and at a long term, a cute care hospital that is an hour commute from where I live.

Needless to say, I spend too much time on the road. When I found your podcast, I realized that I struck gold. I listened to about nine to 12 of your podcasts every week.

I love that you're so informative, fun, and creative with your topics. You know, all the right fluff to brush away and you get right down to the nitty gritty on all of your topics.

I aspire to be as great and smart of a nurse as you are someday. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for providing me a venue to be productive and smart even on my long drives.

So Andrew, thank you for taking the time to do that. And if you guys are commuting or have what you consider to be any kind of downtime listening to the podcast is a fantastic way to study, learn new things, review things you learned in class, get a different perspective.

As Andrew says, the nitty gritty, right? So if you haven't yet subscribed to the podcast, take a minute to do that every episode that I air will show up for you automatically like magic without you having to do anything.

It'll be right there. And I release every Thursday. Okay. So let's dive into what you're going to focus on in your first five shifts as a new nurse.

So starting out as a new nurse, it really can be one of the most challenging things also most rewarding transformations that you will ever make.

The learning curve is absolutely enormous. The stress at times can feel really overwhelming. And there could be this feeling that you're not really sure what to focus on.

As you take on this new role because there's so much it's like drinking from a fire hose, right? So whether you're going through a formal residency program or just getting a down and dirty orientation, which could be happening because there's a big, big need for nurses right now.

So you might be getting that really quick, hyper fast, fast track orientation, focusing on these items in your first five shifts can help you kind of get your feet under you a little more quickly.

I've broken these up into three categories. There's like a general category, a very nursing, you know, nursing role specific category and then technology category. Okay.

All right. So for general things and don't feel like you have to take notes because I do have a blog post associated with this episode. So I'll link to that.

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