Your First Year as a Nurse: Making the Transition from Total Novice to Successful Professional

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Summary: WAY TOO MUCH BASIC INFORMATION....
Review: This is a fine book if you have NEVER held any type of professional position. I wanted more "meat" on the nursing profession, not a book about how to dress for an interview!!! Oh well, it has a few tidbits, and it is good advise if you have never been in the workforce. It just dosen't have all that much info about nursing.

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Summary: Best Advice for New Grads Ever!
Review: This is the best advice for new grads ever! Finally someone who tells it like it is with no frills attached. Written by a nurse, for new nurses, this book tells you what to realistically expect in your first year as a nurse. In an honest and open manner, this book deals with the basics of landing that first nursing job, to dealing with office politics and the age-old phenomenon of nurses "eating their own". This book talks about all the things that they didnt teach you in nursing school and you were too afraid to ask. A wonderful must have for nursing students as well as new grads. This book not only prepares you for the emotional realities of nursing, but it also revives you and gives you hope for improving the profession. After reading this book I walked away knowing that I am not going to be like the disgruntled nurse whose only purpose in life was to make my days as a new grad a living hell. Instead I was going to be better than that and do the job that i loved well. This book offers sound advice for networking, and keeping the spark that got you interested in nursing in the first place. Remember, "if you're not growing you're stagnating"! Donna Cardillo has truly showed the endless boundaries of nursing by contributing to the profession on an even greater level outside of clinical practice. As new grads we need all the help we can get. Cardillo delivers and then some with this wonderful book.