Training Wheels for Nurses: What I Wish I Had Known My First 100 Days on the Job: Wisdom, Tips, and Warnings from Experienced Nurses

by Barbara Arnoldussen

Training Wheels for Nursesfeatures: *Real-life stories, tips, and advice from experienced nurses This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743261917
• ISBN13: 9780743261913
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.4" x 4.5"

Customer Reviews

Inspirational Book

I liked this book! I'm in nursing school and it was interesting to see what "experience" had to say. It's an easy read, but very inspirational and good tips to "take away" from the book. I recommend it to nursing students and new graduates.

It's good

The book, while short contains good information that any nurse should know before starting work.

Very Nice

Nice set-up; nice reminders for a new nurse not to worry -- others have been where she's at now. It gives good advice in an easy format. I'm so glad I picked up this book -- I will probably be reaping its benefits for a while!

Encouraging and Helpful for the New Nurse

I picked this book up about 9 months after I started my first job as a nurse, so I had already been going through the "initiation" process. As I read this book, I was thinking "Gee, wish I had read this in the beginning, would have saved me a lot of trouble." Many of the blurbs (the book is a series of one page "blurbs" of advice grouped into categories) were just common sense items. However, many were "apples of gold" (a Biblical expression for well timed, encouraging words) and practical advice that I had just learned on my own through the "School of Hard Knox" (i.e., on the job). Had I read this earlier, my journey through that first year as a novice nurse might have been a little easier and a little less stressful. Great gift item for your graduating nursing student!

Oh, this book is worth every cent.

What a wonderful way to learn from other nurses that nobody knows everything but we can learn from our mistakes and we strive to be the best we can be. As a DON, I recommend this to all nurses even experienced ones. A good read.