Your First Year As a Nurse, Revised Third Edition

by Donna Cardillo, Diane Mancino (Foreword)

This classic primer takes nurses inside the hospital, the exam room, and the locker room to help you survive and thrive on the job—now updated for the post-pandemic world.

“A must-read guide for new nurses and even those who have been practicing for years.”—Echo Heron, R.N., New York Times bestselling author of Intensive Care
 
In this thorough, readable guide, Donna Cardillo, known as “The Inspiration Nurse,” pulls back the curtain on what it’s really like for first-year nurses, with practical tips for navigating the healthcare system as a new member of the workforce in a world that looks vastly different from ever before. Drawing on her thirty-year nursing career and brand-new insights and perspectives from real healthcare workers, Cardillo shows nurses how to use the principles of self-care, assertiveness, and mindfulness to navigate the interpersonal dynamics that are so key to nursing success and preserve their own longevity in the field.

New graduates, second-career nurses, and healthcare workers of all kinds will learn
• find a job that’s a perfect fit
• navigate clinical settings with confidence
• develop positive relationships with physicians, patients, and co-workers
• stay upbeat, deal with conflict and adversity, and avoid burnout

With newly updated material on holistic patient care, empowerment, wellness practices, and cultivating resilience, Your First Year as a Nurse is an essential guide for nurses and healthcare workers looking to survive and thrive in today’s health-services landscape.

338 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 10, 2022

Reviews

[Auds · Rating 3 out of 5]

Honestly a great summary for a new grad nurse. I was lucky enough to have mentors and close nursing friends to give me solid advice that actually paralleled Donna’s book. Some things are outdated, but you can tell that’s how it is when a nurse out of practice sometimes gives you advice from their time period of experience (which was from years ago).

But if you feel really lost with the transition of school to clinical practice & you don’t have many nursing mentors to rely on, this is a worthwhile read.

[Yuliana Alcocer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think every new nurse needs to read the ending of this book!!

[Beth Oehler]

Interesting insight into the profession of nursing.

[Brittany Nagy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good read, but I felt that some of the ideas were a little outdated.

[Gloria · Rating 3 out of 5]

The information in this book was relevant, but not really anything new from what I had been taught in nursing school.

[Kaitlyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not super helpful? This is stuff that you could probably acquire through a good preceptor or coworker.