Top 10 Student nurse tips

For example, you must understand travel nursing pay packages before you start your job search process. Doing so will allow you to accurately calculate the total value of a pay package and compare pay packages. Perhaps most importantly, it will help you understand all the details you need to obtain about pay packages. Moreover, it instills the perception that you know what you’re doing. That said, we understand that travel nursing pay packages are complicated. However, we are 100% certain that every nurse, therapist and tech are capable of fully understanding the pay packages. healthcare professionals are an intelligent lot. Moreover, there are tons of resources available now. We’ll link to many of them throughout this article, starting with these resources:

• How to Evaluate Travel Nursing Pay Video
• Sample Breakdown of a Travel Nursing Pay Package
• 3 Pitfalls When Discussing Travel Nursing Pay and How to Avoid Them If you invest the 1 to 2 hours it will take you to fully understand pay, then you can negotiate THOUSANDS more dollars in the long-run. It’s worth it!

In the book Negotiation Genius, Harvard Professors Deeepak Malhotra and Max Bazerman discuss ways that negotiators can generate “social proof” in order to increase their negotiating power. The idea is that things increase in value when people perceive that other people are interested in them. How can travel nurses benefit from this? Let your recruiters know you’re working with multiple companies. And keep them posted with the progress. The great news is that this is what you should be doing as a matter of professional courtesy anyway. But remember, treat your recruiters with respect so you can maintain their confidence and ensure they work hard for you.

Keith Carlson (BSN, RN, NC-BS), who runs the Digital Doorway blog, is a holistic career coach for nurses and health care professionals. He also runs a weekly podcast at nursekeith.com. As a career coach, Nurse Keith’s blog posts on Digital Doorway focus a lot on growing your nursing career, establishing a healthy work environment, maintaining work-life balance, setting career goals, and other topics related to becoming an empowered and holistically fulfilled nurse.

When you first start attending nursing school, your loved ones might not be prepared for the strain it will put on you and your time. You should sit down with your parents and let them know that you’re going to need to spend a lot of hours studying in the months to come. You should also sit down with your boyfriend or girlfriend and let them know you won’t be able to go on as many dates as usual or even hang out like you always do. Your time is going to be very valuable when you’re in nursing school. You should make it a point to fill them in on how your life will change as you strive to become a nurse.

In the classroom, inattention is easy to spot; online, it's more difficult. To help engage students, show your passion for the topic—and for nursing. Learn your students' names, be friendly, and, if your online learning management system offers this functionality, chat with them before class starts. Use interactive questions throughout the online lecture to promote involvement. Online instructors can foster helping-trusting-caring relationships and address individual learning needs. Take time to interact with students and address their different learning styles in your presentation. Don't forget that cultural competency is important in all learning environments. The online environment may make it difficult to be aware of cultural clues, so using sensitive and inclusive language is a must.

While preparing for tests is important, what really matters is to understand how you will use the information once you’re working as a registered nurse. Put the concepts in the framework of the nursing process, says Angela Beck RN, MSN-Ed, a CAS Manager on Chamberlain’s Las Vegas campus. “Keeping these processes in mind while reading chapters is a way to actively read and study,” she said. “This will help you establish concrete memories of the standards for patient care and critically think about the concepts being taught.”

Next, you should request a sample travel nursing contract in advance. As I mentioned above, travel nursing contracts include many different clauses. Moreover, different agencies use different contracts and clauses. It’s extremely rare for a recruiter to cover every clause with you during the course of your normal conversations with them. Therefore, you can get totally thrown off guard when you receive a contract from a travel nursing agency that you’ve never worked with. Your travel nursing recruiter may tell you that travel nursing contracts vary from hospital to hospital. There is some truth to that. However, you can still ask for a general example so that you can review and ask questions before you receive an offer.