Titlebook: Developing Your Career in Nursing; Desmond F. S. Cormack Book 1990 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1990 career.medicine.nursing

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Transition from student to professionalothing can quite compare to those first days of wearing a staff nurse uniform, really doing the job of a professional practitioner in your own right — so why do you, as a new staff nurse, so often feel unprepared, anxious and ill-at-ease? Henderson (1969) noted that:

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Individual professional assertiveness term is, unfortunately, largely used in its negative form in the nursing literature in that it is usually used interchangeably with the term ‘hostility’. In an attempt to clarify the meaning of these terms, . (1985) defines ‘.... to insist upon (rights, claims etc.)... to put oneself forward in an

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Professional stressends and wider society, there are stresses associated with our expectations of what we should be doing in various situations. The organization of our lives is also an important source of stress. Many of the demands placed upon us, by ourselves and others, are woven into the’ system’ which often dire

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Employment law and professional disciplinegations arise from statute such as maternity pay, others from collective bargaining such as the Whitley Agreement, others are imposed by the employer such as the salary scales of the Review Body. A contract of employment needs no formalities, and can be oral, written or both. New employees are entit

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Continuing educationbsequent indefinite period without necessarily undertaking additional professional education. For some individuals, this may be as long as forty years; a position which may partly change if mandatory updating is introduced more widely. In practice, the content of initial training quickly becomes out

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Nursing researchions and thereby increasing nursing knowledge. It is a crucial part of the continuing education and career development of . nurses. During the past twenty years, when research has been widely discussed both nationally and internationally, the question has often been asked: ‘What can nursing research

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Public speakingtation depends on the speaker, audience, purpose of the talk, and the venue. Much of this chapter applies equally to the large formal gathering and to the small informal gathering of colleagues. This type of speaking is similar in some ways to classroom teaching, or to the presentation of discussion

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Conference attendanced other similar events. It also refers to ‘workshops’, a specialized form of conference which Stevens (1977) described as a concentrated group educational experience with its own unique characteristics. That writer gave an excellent account of how to organize and participate in a successful workshop