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Nurse Residencies: Norm or Exception?

Minority Nurse

Meanwhile, their less fortunate new grad colleagues take positions where they may be subject to extremely poor (or veritably nonexistent) precepting and essentially set up to sink or swim. Back then, a nurse would attend a nursing school run by a particular hospital.

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Don’t Call Us Heroes: Nursing Is a Calling — and a Profession

Relias

As the end of a shift looms, my colleagues and I look towards the ceiling and thank the ‘OB gods’ for a hemorrhage that was not worse, a shoulder dystocia that easily resolved, or a C-section successfully performed because we simply did not have enough staff to circulate, scrub, ‘catch the baby,’ and monitor other laboring patients at the same time.