The authoritative student guide to one of the fastest growing, most in demand professions today.
Stressed Out About Nursing School, Second Edition is loaded with resources and written from a student's perspective.
You'll find out all about:
- The rigors of making it into nursing school: applications, interviews, types of programs, whether nursing is for you, and more
- Surviving nursing school: What to expect, study tips, time management, the truth about clinicals, and working and going to school
- What life is like after school, acing the NCLEX, getting your dream job, what is nursing is really like, salaries, specialization, and grad school
Helpful icons guide you through a myriad of resources and present expert advice on everything you ever wanted to know about nursing school.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stephanie Thibeault is a second-career nursing student working toward her goal to become a hospice nurse practitioner. She has more than 10 years experience in administration and human resources, and has devoted significant time to volunteer work in the social service and healthcare sectors. She developed an award-winning Web site for nursing students (The Student Nurse Forum) and has also published a monthly journal, The Student Nurse Advisor.
Contributing author Polly Gerber Zimmermann, RN, MS, MBA, CEN, has been in active in emergency and medical-surgical nursing clinical practice for more than 29 years and involved in nurse educating for more than 10 years. She was the senior course manager for the nursing division of the National Center for Advanced Medical Education, and is a tenured assistant professor in the Department of Nursing at the Harry S. Truman College, Chicago, IL. Under her guidance, the school’s curriculum instituted an integration of prioritization principles and critical thinking that resulted in the school’s students improving from below to above national average results in these areas on standardized test scores.
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