#80: Why Keeping a Clinical Journal is a Genius Idea

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Straight A Nursing

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🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In a job with a steep learning curve and many opportunities to learn from experience, a clinical journal can help you in so many ways. In this episode we’ll talk through all the ways a clinical journal can help you: * Debrief after clinical. This will help you learn from past experiences, which is a critical skill for any nursing student or nurse * Identify your current goals and track your progress * Monitor how satisfied you are with your current situation * Develop communication strategies * Manage work or school-related stress * Stay focused on your “why” * Define your career pathway ___________________ Full Transcript - Read the article and view references 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! Study Sesh - Change the way you study with this private podcast that includes dynamic audio formats that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go. Free yourself from your desk with Study Sesh! 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. Clinical Debrief Template - One of the best ways to fast-track your clinical learning is to debrief after each clinical day so you can apply what you learned to future scenarios. 💕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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0:27.0	Terms apply, C3.co. UK. Hey there everyone it is Nurse Mo and welcome back to the Straight A Nursing
0:45.2	podcast. This is episode 80 and today we are talking about why keeping a
0:52.0	clinical journal could be the most genius thing that you ever do.
0:58.8	But before we get into that, I want to do a listener shout out to upside down 101 who simply writes
1:06.7	amazing I'm in my fourth semester and I wish I would have found this earlier.
1:13.0	So, upside down 101, you're here now and that's all the matters.
1:18.0	So I'm glad that you're here and I'm glad that all of you are here.
1:22.0	So talking about... that all of you are here.
1:23.0	So talking about a clinical journal,
1:27.1	what is that and how can it help you learn, progress,
1:32.4	and be an even better nurse.
1:35.0	So I don't know if you guys ever watched Gray's anatomy,
1:38.0	but I used to be way into Gray's anatomy.
1:41.0	And at one point, Meredith is reading her mother's clinical journals basically and you know
1:46.7	they would inspire her and encourage her to be an even better surgeon So as a new nurse I saw an episode where she was doing this and I thought that is a fantastic idea. I should keep a clinical journal. And as I would see situations occurring in the intensive care unit where I
2:06.4	started as a brand new nurse, I would file them away with the idea that if I
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