Career Guide For New Nurses Is An Antidote For An Ailing Profession

Your First Year as a Nurse - Making the Transition From Total Novice to Successful Professional, the timely new book from Prima Publishing ($19.95, 0-7615-3333-8), is a practical guide for student nurses and new graduates to help them negotiate their way through a challenging and complex healthcare system. Written by Donna Wilk Cardillo, RN, the book is also designed to entice individuals to consider nursing as a profession during a time of the worst predicted shortage in the profession’s history.

This practical and often humorous guide is loaded with stories and anecdotes from Cardillo’s own career as well as those of other experienced nurses and the scores of new graduates she interviewed for this book. It’s a no-nonsense guide to survive, and in fact, thrive, in the nursing profession. Witty, gritty, and full of invaluable tips and advice, the book is a new grads personal mentor for their new career. The book is written for both RN’s and LPN/LVN’s in the U.S. and Canada and includes an extensive resource section for both countries.

Those who have graduated in the last few years, find themselves thrust into a high tech, complex, often short-staffed environment where they barely have an opportunity to learn. Some new graduates are only working with other new graduates, with few experienced people to call on for help and advice. This has scared many new grads away from the profession. “Your First Year as a Nurse” addresses all of these issues and more with practical advice on how to avoid the pitfalls, find a good working environment, and build a solid foundation. It also focuses on all of the good things about nursing and dispels some of the myths and stereotypes. It even includes a special section on the unique experiences of men in the profession.

The author, Ms. Cardillo is President of Cardillo & Associates, Professional Development Seminars in Wall, NJ. She is known as “Dear Donna” at Nursing Spectrum, a Gannett publication, where she writes a daily online advice column for nurses and a monthly career fitness column for the magazine. She was formerly the “Healthcare Careers Expert” at Monster.com. She is the country’s leading expert on nontraditional career opportunities for nurses and one of the country’s top nursing career management experts.

For more details, find the book on amazon.com and click on “See all editorial reviews” where you can view the table of contents, an excerpt from the first chapter, a message from the author, and more. You can also find the book at Barnes & Noble and other major book stores. Prima Publishing is a division of Random House.

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