| Introduction |
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| CHAPTER 1 After Nursing School: Now What? Taking Stock |
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The Nursing School Experience: What Did It Mean to You? |
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Preparing for a Time of Transition |
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Let Me into the Dressing Rooms I Want to Try on My New Role |
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The Year of Med/Surg Experience Debate |
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Setting Your Preliminary Career Goals |
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| CHAPTER 2 Job Search Workout |
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Deciding What's Important to You |
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Considering Fields of Practice |
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Hospice/Palliative Care Nurse |
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Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse |
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Conducting Informational Interviews |
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Inventorying Your Marketability |
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Preparing a Resume and Cover Letter |
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Practicing Your Employment Interviews |
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| CHAPTER 3 Looking for Jobs in All the Right Places |
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Can an Externship Become an Internship? |
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Using Online Job Search Resources |
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Finding Jobs Through the Classifieds |
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Making the Most of Network Referrals |
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Acing the Interview: Know Your Nurse Recruiter |
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| CHAPTER 4 What's in It for Me: Considering Opportunities |
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Earning While You Learn: Preceptorship and Orientation Parameters |
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How Not to Take the Nursing Shortage Personally |
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Use of Unlicensed Assistive Personnel |
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Show Me the Money: Salary and Benefit Packages |
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| CHAPTER 5 The First Month: Dive Right In, The Water's Fine |
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| CHAPTER 6 Fostering Healthy Relationships |
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Family and Friends in a Time of Transition |
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Patients and Their Families |
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Quality Peer Relations and Teamwork |
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Cross-Generational Concerns |
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| CHAPTER 7 Diversity in Nursing |
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Nurses with Physical and Mental Health-Related Disabilities |
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Nurses |
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Nurses Returning to the Workforce |
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Finding a Job and Making It Work |
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The Graying of the RN Workforce |
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| CHAPTER 8 You're Not the Boss of Me (well, actually...) |
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| CHAPTER 9 Legal and Ethical Issues |
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Love Me, Love My License (Lawsuit Prevention) |
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Rules, Rules, Rules: The Nurse Practice Act and You |
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Assignment Despite Objection |
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| CHAPTER 10 The Mess That Is Stress |
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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Boundaries and You |
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Do You Smell Smoke? Dealing with Burnout |
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Pushing More Buttons Than the Call Bell: When Patients Bring Up Issues |
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Physical Stressors and Occupational Hazards |
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Humor as a Stress Modulator |
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| CHAPTER 11 The Long and Winding Road: Don't Forget About Your Future |
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Reviewing Your Career Ladder Goals |
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Lifelong Learning: Academic and Continuing Education Options |
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Changing Issues in Nursing (and How to Make a Change) |
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Financial Goals and Retirement Strategies |
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When Is It Time to Move On? |
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| Index |
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