Direct The Film of Your Nursing Career!

There's something to say about being in control, isn't there? And when you think about your nursing career, do you feel like you're in control, or are you allowing yourself to be a bit actor when you should actually be the star? It's up to you to seize the Director's chair and begin directing the film of your career. Are you ready? From the day you enter nursing school until the time that you retire from nursing, it can often feel like you're not in control. You're told where to go to clinical, who your patients will or won't be, what classes you should take, what specialty to focus on, what advanced degree to pursue, and whether you can or can't take a lunch break or go to the bathroom during a shift.At times, it may seem like there's a whole lot of acquiescing and control going on in nursing, and even though the movie of your life is all about you, it may feel like someone else is directing the film of your career.Take The HelmTaking the helm and directing your own career means that you don't go to graduate school just because "they" say you should. Who are "they", anyway?Taking the helm means that, even though everyone tells you that you should get two years of Med/Surg under your belt, you have a different idea of what to do when you get out of nursing school. And you do it.Taking the helm may mean launching an entrepreneurial venture when everyone says that it's doomed to fail. In the film of your nursing career, daring nurses do daring things and take calculated risks, ...
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