Being The “Green” Registered Nurse
You have completed nursing school and the much coveted goal of becoming an RN has been accomplished. It has been a long road for you with many hard nights of studying and preparing and lots of stress. But all that is over now that you have your license right? WRONG! You couldn’t be more wrong. All the training was necessary to just get you in the game. Now you get to play in the game. You in fact are green. Being green is not a bad thing, we all are green at the beginning. No one becomes a seasoned veteran overnight, and although you may be academically superior to others in your program you are still green to the profession. Perhaps you will see other professional more experienced then you make mistakes that you have to correct.
This is a true…. Health care is full of such circumstances, however you are still green. Well what exactly does that means. Being green means that you haven’t come to YOUR full potential as a professional. It means that you still have so much more to learn from experience which is unique to every individual. No one avoids being green, but being green is often given bad press and looked down on as, ….ohhhh….She’s new….
You may be new, but you are well on your way to becoming what it is that you want to be. If you want to be an expert in pediatric nursing, you are on your way. If you want to be an outstanding pre-hospital flight nurse, you are well on your way. Perhaps you are considering the higher level nurse anesthesiologist or practitioner, you are well on your way. Whatever it is you have chosen as an individual is yours regardless of how green you are. As long as you have clear goal in mind and the heart to go after it, it is your. Every ones journey starts at different time and progresses at a different rate. Don’t ever get into a mental rut because you are new and things still feel a bit awkward. Seasoning takes time, and time in health care goes by very fast. Before you know it you will “remembering” when you were new and hopefully consider that when newbies start their rotations in your department.
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