Vol. XIII, No. 5Archive > May, 2012

Behind Closed Doors

Take a Young Nurse Under Your Wing

Paula Watkins, RN, CNOR

We hear so much about grizzled OR nurses eating their young, but I love working with these clean slates and teaching surgical nursing the way it's supposed to be done, not the well-worn path we've settled into. The best teaching carries lessons for student and teacher alike.

 
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