Persuasive Essay On Being A Registered Nurse

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Susan,
Thank you for your response. While you make a great point that most of us had great preceptors and resources to guide us through our novice years in nursing; due to financial constraints, orientations are now shorter than they have ever been. Nurse residency programs offer great tools and resources to guide graduate nurses through the transition into being a registered nurse. The point being is that turn over in correlation with budget cuts has changed the time graduates spend orienting to units. At times units are inadequately staffed, let alone providing proper orientation to new graduates. It is a very different world for graduate nurses than it was even seven years ago. I got almost twelve weeks orienting. I see some nurses