There are a few things all nursing students and nurses have in common. Giving up our social life for a new normal, learning hardiness in the face of poor grades and much worse, living on noodles while taking out a loan to buy textbooks, realizing there is always more to learn....
Nursing is its own world, for sure. Whether you are working on an inpatient unit, in school to be a practitioner, just starting out as a new nurse, or in the midst of undergrad clinicals, there are a few things that are universal to us all as a benefit of being in the nurse mafia ;)
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