SLUG stands for Student Learning Under Guidance. Here we can post advise and learned experiences for future nurses. Here's some good advice I recently ran across. If you don't get emotionally involved with patients, it's time to change professions. / Even if you can't cure-you can still care. / Healing the spirit is just as important as healing the body.

To love what you do, and to feel that it matters-how could anything be more fun? Katharine Graham

Thanks Charlita, I was curious as to what slug meant. I am certainly finding many mentors here. I'm glad a friend told me about this site!

charlita said:

Anytime you think you've seen the freakiest of the freaky-someone always comes along who raises the freaky limit. Experienced ER nurse

BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY / What goes around comes around

Don't bring WORK home with you

give your WWHHOOLLEE tender loving care with your PT. fulfill their emotions, treat them as a family of yours,, dont make them sad..embarased..or isolated. also... have a good commmunication with them..

years from now, it wont matter how you did on a MAJOR EXAM or what your BOARD RATING was. No one wll care what your STET'S color was. It wont matter if your SCRUB SUIT was messy or if your ASSESSMENT style wasnt the best. but if u made life a little better just for ONE PATIENT, "as a NURSE, that's how you/we will be remembered!" =)

chq said:

give your WWHHOOLLEE tender loving care with your PT. fulfill their emotions, treat them as a family of yours,, dont make them sad..embarased..or isolated. also... have a good commmunication with them..

years from now, it wont matter how you did on a MAJOR EXAM or what your BOARD RATING was. No one wll care what your STET'S color was. It wont matter if your SCRUB SUIT was messy or if your ASSESSMENT style wasnt the best. but if u made life a little better just for ONE PATIENT, "as a NURSE, that's how you/we will be remembered!" =)

vickielee1970 said:

chq said:

give your WWHHOOLLEE tender loving care with your PT. fulfill their emotions, treat them as a family of yours,, dont make them sad..embarased..or isolated. also... have a good commmunication with them..

years from now, it wont matter how you did on a MAJOR EXAM or what your BOARD RATING was. No one wll care what your STET'S color was. It wont matter if your SCRUB SUIT was messy or if your ASSESSMENT style wasnt the best. but if u made life a little better just for ONE PATIENT, "as a NURSE, that's how you/we will be remembered!" =)

You make such eloquent sense my dear. One day and One patient at a time you make your career either one to be proud of or one to be ashamed of, which will you be on judgement day?