Transition From Student Nurse To Registered Nurse

About the Book

Transition from Student Nurse to Registered Nurse is a book developed to help budding nurses navigate our complex healthcare system with greater ease. Graduating nurses are faced with many challenges—seemingly contradictory nursing practices, rotating shifts, confusing referral systems, and stressful nursing key performance indicators. The reader will have a good overview of the healthcare system. It also tells you how patients are placed in different disciplines and how different services are provided. More importantly, it discusses the core skills of a Registered Nurse, such as vital signs interpretation, management of commonly seen medical emergencies and conditions, wound management, and even dealing with non-medical issues. But that’s not all. Readers will have insights into the various professions that a Registered Nurse works with. Written in collaboration with Medical and Allied Health professionals, this book will definitely give you knowledge and perspectives that no other books can offer. Whether you are a nursing student, fresh nursing graduate, or a seasoned nurse, this is the book to have!

About the Author

JJ Cai Junjie is currently a Registered Nurse working in Singapore. He graduated with Honours from Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, National University of Singapore, and completed his postgraduate certification in Wound, Ostomy, and Continence at Curtin University. He is a strong believer in having quality outcomes for all his patients. Nursing, in his perspective, is the art of rendering holistic care, above and beyond just physical care. His belief can be summed in this quote, “What good is it for us to add years to our lives if we don’t add life to our years?”