Your Nursing Career Report Card

Remember the days when you ' d run home with your report card to show your parents how you did in school? Or were you the kid who hid it at the bottom of your bag so they wouldn ' t see it? Well, your nursing career deserves a report card, too. How ' ve you been doing and what grade do you think you deserve?Report cards can be a measurement of performance, communication, talent, intelligence, diligence, attention to detail, time management, relationships, and many other categories. In some schools, letter grades are the norm, while in some alternative schools, there aren ' t any grades at all. Sometimes, our report cards are pass\fail, and we either make the cut or we don ' t. And sometimes those grades just don ' t seem fair.The Nurse ' s Report CardThe nurse ' s career report card can look different for everyone, and there are various classifications we can use to measure a nurse ' s success. What do you think you excel in and what could use a boost?If we ' re looking at clinical performance, we can examine and assign a grade to different types of assessment skills (neuro, psych, cardiac, respiratory, etc). Clinically, nurses also need to do well in the areas of collaboration, communication, documentation, and patient relationships. And those nurses who work in non-clinical roles (like yours truly) need an entirely different measure of their skill sets and responsibilities.While I don ' t use any clinical skills in my current career manifestation (except with friends, famil...
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