In this episode, we are going to talk about The World Economic Forum, or in short WEF. In summary, The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. This is a non-profit organization that joins public and private companies in collaboration with certain agreed-upon goals.
The WEF’s mission is stated as “committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas.
The World Economic Forum hosts an annual meeting at the end of January in Davos in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland. The meeting brings together 3,000 business leaders, international political leaders, economists, celebrities, and journalists for up to five days to discuss global issues, across 500 sessions.
The organization also convenes six to eight regional meetings each year in locations across Africa, East Asia, Latin America, and India and holds two other annual meetings in China and the United Arab Emirates.
Besides meetings, the organization provides a platform for leaders from all stakeholder groups from around the world – business, government, and civil society – to collaborate on multiple projects and initiatives. It also produces a series of reports and engages its members in sector-specific initiatives [1].
Who is in Attendance
Donald Trump, President of the United States of America
Han Zheng, Vice-Premier of the People’s Republic of China
Angela Merkel, Federal Chancellor of Germany
Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of Italy
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales;
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission
Pedro Sanchez, Prime Minister of Spain
Simonetta Sommaruga, President of the Swiss Confederation
Andrzej Duda, President of Poland
Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations
Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Roberto Azevêdo, Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO)
Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, Secretary-General, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
David Beasley, Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
Luca Visentini, General Secretary, European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)
Micah White, Co-Creator, Occupy Wall Street
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
Greta Thunberg, Swedish climate activist
Deepika Padukone, Actress, and Founder, Live Love Laugh Foundation
will.i.am, Founder and CEO, I.AM.PLUS
Jin Xing, Choreographer, and Founder, Jin Xing Dance Theatre Shanghai
Yo-Yo Ma, Cellist and Co-Chair Annual Meeting 2020
Mary Beard, Professor, University of Cambridge
Rena Efendi, Photographer, National Geographic
Wanuri Kahiu, Filmmaker, AFROBUBBLEGUM.
2020 Global Risk Assessment
Top Likelihood of Occurring
Extreme weather
Climate action failure
Natural disaster
Biodiversity loss
Human-made Environmental disasters
Data fraud or theft
Cyberattacks
Water crises
Global governance failure
Climate-related issues dominated all of the top-five long-term risks in terms of likelihood.
A new cold war is developing as countries—including China, Norway, Russia, and the United States— compete for fish, gas, and other natural resources; for the use of new shipping lanes; and to establish a strategic footprint in the region.
Russia and China have prioritized developing the Northern Sea Route, with the latter dubbing its initiative the “Polar Silk Road”. The U.S. Department of Defense released its Arctic strategy in July; that document did not mention climate change but did present a strategy in which the “end-state for the Arctic is a secure and stable region in which U.S. national security interests are safeguarded.”
More Complex Digital Frontiers
One such area is artificial intelligence (AI). According to the UN’s International Telecommunication Union, it will take “massive interdisciplinary collaboration” to unlock AI’s potential. But because AI can also bring significant risk, multilateral cooperation is needed to address challenges such as security, verification, “deep fake” videos, mass surveillance, and advanced weaponry.
Despite the need for a common set of global protocols, AI has become a new frontier for competitive geopolitics. In 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, “Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.”
China has strongly encouraged companies to invest in AI, making it a national security priority; AI is a pillar of its current five-year plan (2016–2020) for science and technology development and its “made in China 2025” industrial plan.
In the United States, the Defense Department’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center recently requested that its budget be tripled to US$268 million, citing the rapid development of AI capabilities by China and Russia as a reason for urgency.
2030 Predictions for the World
What will the future look like for the world? This is probably the question in everyone’s mind. Here are some of the future predictions that may happen in the next few years [2].
Products will become a service
There are people that do not own a car, don’t own a house, don’t own appliances or clothes, they don’t own anything.
Global price on carbon
China took the lead in 2017 with a market for trading the right to emit a tonne of CO2, setting the world on a path towards a single carbon price and a powerful incentive to ditch fossil fuels, predicts Jane Burston, Head of Climate and Environment at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory. Europe, meanwhile, found itself at the center of the trade-in of cheap, efficient solar panels, as prices for renewables fell sharply.
Drop-in US dominance into a handful of powers
Instead of a single force, a handful of countries – the U.S., Russia, China, Germany, India, and Japan chief among them – show semi-imperial tendencies. However, at the same time, the role of the state is threatened by trends including the rise of cities and the spread of online identities.
Less hospital care
The hospital as we know it will be changed, with fewer accidents due to self-driving cars and an increase in preventive and personalized medicine. Open organ surgeries and organ donors are out, and tiny robotic tubes and bio-printed organs are going to be developed.
Less meat
Rather like our grandparents, the meat will be a treat rather than a staple, writes Tim Benton, Professor of Population Ecology at the University of Leeds, UK. It won’t be big agriculture or little artisan producers that win, but rather a combination of the two, with convenience food redesigned to be healthier and less harmful to the environment.
Refugees will be CEOs and share the future
Highly educated Syrian refugees will be old enough to have an impact on the community by 2030, making the case for the economic integration of those who have been forced to flee the conflict. The world needs to be better prepared for populations on the move, writes Lorna Solis, Founder, and CEO of the NGO Blue Rose Compass, as climate change will have displaced 1 billion people.
Western values will be tested
We forget the checks and balances that bolster our democracies at our peril, writes Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch.
Moving closer to Mars
What’s more, once we get there, we’ll probably discover evidence of alien life, writes Ellen Stofan, Chief Scientist at NASA. Big science will help us to answer big questions about life on earth, as well as open up practical applications for space technology.
COVID-19: The Great Reset
The book has three main chapters, offering a panoramic overview of the future landscape.
The first make an assessment of what the impact of the pandemic will be on five key macro-categories: the economic, societal, geopolitical, environmental, and technological factors.
The second considers the effects in micro terms, on specific industries and companies.
The third hypothesis is about the nature of the possible consequences at the individual level.
“This is a chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts, to reimagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality, and climate change,” Trudeau said.
Simply put, will we put into motion the Great Reset? Resetting is an ambitious task, perhaps too ambitious, but we have no choice but to try our utmost to achieve it.
It’s about making the world less divisive, less polluting, less destructive, more inclusive, more equitable, and fairer than we left it in the pre-pandemic era. Doing nothing, or too little, is to sleepwalk towards ever-more social inequality, economic imbalances, injustice, and environmental degradation.
Failing to act would equate to letting our world become meaner, more divided, more dangerous, more selfish, and simply unbearable for large segments of the globe’s population. To do nothing is not a viable option.
Two points are pertinent to the Great Reset in this:
Our human actions and reactions are not rooted in statistical data but are determined instead by emotions and sentiments – narratives drive our behavior.
As our human condition improves, our standards of living increase and so do our expectations for a better and fairer life.
Klauss belief: Transhumanism is a philosophical movement, the proponents of which advocate and predict the enhancement of the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies able to greatly enhance longevity, mood, and cognitive abilities.
Learn more about the World Economic Forum by clicking on the full episode here
TIME STAMPS:
0:00 – Intro 0:10 – Episode Intro 1:50 – A globalized world 2:00 – WEF Mission 3:35 – The Annual Meeting 4:50 – 2020 Risk Assessment 8:50 – Products will become a service 13:42 – Less hospital care 17:15 – Less meat consumption 19:52 – Refugees will be CEOs 20:00 – Western values will be tested 27:05 – Moving closer to Mars 29:29 – The Covid-19 the Great Reset 31:40 – China’s AI 33:20 – Can robots replace us? 34:50 – “Emotion is more powerful than logic or numbers” 37:00 – The two points of the Great Reset 39:30 – Context matters 41:00 – A world that’s less decisive 41:50 – Enhancing the human condition 42:35 – Peace out!
Google Released a New AI-powered App to Identify Common Skin Conditions
Google Health has new tools, which will allow users to identify different dermatology issues like skin cancer through Artificial Intelligence (AI) and a smartphone camera.
In order to use this web-based application users will have to take three images from different angles of their skin, nail, or hair concern using their smartphone’s camera. The new features for Google Health were announced at the Google I/O 2021 keynote on May 18. The AI tech will be arriving as a Web-based application that will be launched later in the year.
Google will ask questions about the users’ skin type, the duration of the issue, and other symptoms that will help the tool narrow down the possibilities. The AI tool has been developed using de-identified data from 65,000 images and case data of diagnosed skin conditions. It will draw from its knowledge of 288 conditions to give you a comprehensive list of possible matching conditions, so then you can further research them.
Commenting on the dermatology AI tool, Google states that every year “almost ten billion Google Searches are related to skin, nail and hair issues. Two billion people worldwide suffer from dermatologic issues, but there’s a global shortage of specialists.”
Through a new study, the search giant found “the right deep learning system can be used to accurately identify patients who are likely to have active TB based on their chest X-ray.”
The tech giant is also interested in sleep health as its second-generation Nest hub includes a sleep sensing feature that uses radar-based sleep tracking in addition to an algorithm for cough and snore detection [1].
Skin Cancer Facts & Statistics
Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States and worldwide.
More people are diagnosed with skin cancer each year in the U.S. than all other cancers combined.
1 in 5 Americans will develop skin cancer by the age of 70.
When detected early, the 5-year survival rate for melanoma is 99 percent.
The annual cost of treating skin cancers in the U.S. is estimated at $8.1 billion: about $4.8 billion for nonmelanoma skin cancers and $3.3 billion for melanoma [2].
Indoor Tanning
Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is a proven human carcinogen.
Indoor tanning devices can emit UV radiation in amounts 10 to 15 times higher than the sun at its peak intensity.
The cost of direct medical care for skin cancer cases attributable to indoor tanning is $343.1 million annually in the U.S.
More than 419,000 cases of skin cancer in the U.S. each year are linked to indoor tanning, including about 245,000 basal cell carcinomas, 168,000 squamous cell carcinomas, and 6,200 melanomas [3].
Exposure to Chemicals in Sunscreen
Study linking Oxybenzone (BP-3) and mammary tumor growth
In a new animal study, scientists have explored the effects a combination of diet and exposure to the chemical benzophenone-3 (BP-3) has on mammary gland tumors.
The study, published in the journal Oncotarget, lays the ground for further research to confirm the findings and to explore the extent to which they are likely to be reproducible in humans.
Chemicals known as ultraviolet (UV) filters are added to sunscreens to absorb or block UV radiation from the sun. UV filters can offer protection against both UVA and UVB rays.
Ultraviolet filters are regularly used in cosmetics for sun protection purposes, and in other products like plastics, toys, or furniture finishes to limit UV degradation. People may be exposed to these chemicals when food comes into contact with plastics that contain UV filters.
These findings suggest that BP-3 exposure may have adverse consequences in mammary tumorigenesis. They point to a need for further studies of BP-3 in both animal models and humans as a potential risk factor in breast cancer.
They also point to the more general need to evaluate endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the context of varying diets. Future studies are needed to identify the mechanistic basis for BP-3 effects on mammary tumorigenesis and how dietary fat interacts with BP-3 to alter outcomes [4].
BP-3 was detected in 96% of the population of the United States between 2003 and 2012. A recent study found that a single heavy application of sunscreen could exceed the point at which BP-3 becomes of toxicological concern. In this study, they also found that there was an increasing trend of urinary BP3 concentration since 2005–2006 [5].
Within the past year, the European Commission has published preliminary opinions on the safety of three organic UV filters, oxybenzone, homosalate, and octocrylene. The Commission found current human exposure levels to oxybenzone to be unsafe and proposed a concentration restriction of 2.2 percent – lower than the limited amount allowed in U.S. sunscreens, which is up to 6 percent.
Several countries ban the sale of sunscreens that contain this ingredient, because it may be harmful to aquatic life. A study found that 2-Hydroxy-4-methoxybenzophenone (2H4MBP) and metabolites were detected in rat plasma after exposure through the diet [6].
Homosalate
Homosalate is an organic UV filter widely used in U.S. sunscreens. The FDA has proposed that there is insufficient data to evaluate whether it is safe and effective to use in sunscreens. Homosalate has been found to penetrate the skin, disrupt hormones and produce toxic breakdown byproducts over time.
An opinion from the European Commission found that homosalate was not safe to use at concentrations up to 10 percent and recommended a maximum concentration of 1.4 percent, because of concerns for potential endocrine disruption. The FDA allows U.S. sunscreen manufacturers to use it in concentrations up to 15 percent.
Octocrylene
Currently, the FDA suggests, in 2019, there is insufficient data to determine whether it can be classified as safe and effective. Octocrylene has been linked to aquatic toxicity with the potential to harm coral health and is often contaminated with the known carcinogen benzophenone.
The European Commission recently concluded that although there was some evidence of octocrylene’s endocrine-disrupting potential, current use concentrations up to 10 percent were considered safe.
Titanium dioxide and zinc oxide
Mineral sunscreens are made with titanium dioxide and zinc oxide, usually in the form of nanoparticles. The FDA proposed that both titanium dioxide and zinc oxide be classified as safe and effective. Evidence suggests that few if any zinc or titanium particles penetrate the skin to reach living tissues.
Most research suggests that the nanoparticles don’t cross skin but inhaling the agent can cause danger. Don’t use sunscreens that have these two ingredients in spray sun sunscreen.
Learn more about this skin app by watching the full episode, here 👇
TIME STAMPS:
00:00 – Intro 00:35 – Episode Intro 01:35 – Google’s AI Skin App 03:00 – When Apps become a part of your health routine 03:58 – It checks your skin and nails’ health 04:50 – Is this AI skin app smarter than dermatologists? 07:35 – Skin Cancer 09:15 – Does exposure to the sun really cause skin cancer? 09:55 – A revolving door 10:50 – The problem with tanning beds 14:53 – Exposure to chemicals in sunscreens 17:46 – Sunscreens are a risk factor for breast cancer 18:25 – BP3 is detected 19:20 – Fat, sick, and nearly dead 19:45 – Different regulations in the United States and Europe 22:27 – Born in a world where all is “acceptable” 24:00 – Finding balance 25:00 – Titanium oxide in sunscreen 27:10 – The Science back then 29:15 – Spreading consciousness to people 29:20 – Topic summary and closing
Colon Rectal Cancer & Sleep Aids Link to Alzheimer’s
The American Cancer Society recommends that people at average risk of colon-rectal cancer start regular screening at age 45. This can be done either with a sensitive test that looks for signs of cancer in a person’s stool (a stool-based test) or with an exam that looks at the colon and rectum (a visual exam).
Colorectal screening age 45 instead of 50
According to the National Cancer Institute, colorectal cancers diagnosed before age 50 have increased by 51% since 1994. Research by the American Cancer Society shows that these younger people are more likely to receive a late-stage diagnosis, which is more challenging to treat.
*For screening, people are considered to be at average risk if they do not have:
Personal history of colorectal cancer or certain types of polyps
A family history of colorectal cancer
A personal history of inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease)
Confirmed or suspected hereditary colorectal cancer syndrome, such as familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) or Lynch syndrome (hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer or HNPCC)
A personal history of getting radiation to the abdomen (belly) or pelvic area to treat a prior cancer
Risk for Colon Cancer
A personal history of colorectal cancer or certain types of polyps
A family history of colorectal cancer
A personal history of inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease)
A confirmed or suspected hereditary colorectal cancer syndrome, such as familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) or Lynch syndrome (hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer or HNPCC)
A personal history of getting radiation to the abdomen (belly) or pelvic area to treat a prior cancer
A small proportion of colorectal cancers—around 5 percent—are hereditary, including conditions such as Lynch syndrome, which is caused by mutations in genes responsible for repairing errors in DNA replication.
Another 20 percent or so have a family history of colorectal cancer, although it’s not clear whether it’s predominantly genetic or environmental factors that cause the disease
This year, the American Cancer Society estimates that 12% of all new colon-rectal cancer cases – approximately 18,000 people – will be diagnosed in patients younger than 50 [1].
Compared with non-Hispanic whites, Black patients are 20% more likely to develop colon cancer and nearly 40% more likely to die from it.
By 2030, 10% of colon cancers and 22% of rectal cancers diagnosed in the U.S. are expected to be in patients younger than 50. This is an alarming forecast when compared with the rates of 4% and 9% for colon-rectal cancer, respectively, from just 10 years ago.
About 75% of colon cancer occurs in the descending-sigmoid location. Patients may experience dark red blood mixed with stool or sometimes clots.
Other signs may be increased bowel frequency or abdominal pain. Right-sided cancer in the sigmoid accounts for 20% of colon cancers and appears asymptomatic until they have weight loss or anemia occurs.
Investigations
Abdominal examination
Colonoscopy – A camera is inserted through the rectum and extends throughout the entire colon. The doctor is looking for any abnormalities such as polyps, or abnormal growths on the inside of the colon. If polyps are found, the doctor will remove them during the procedure. These would be sent to a pathologist for further testing to check for malignancy.
Tests
Stool-based
Highly sensitive fecal immunochemical test (FIT) every year
Highly sensitive guaiac-based fecal occult blood test (gFOBT) every year
Multi-targeted stool DNA test (mt-sDNA) every 3 years
Blood-based
LFT
FBC
Tumor marker CEA
Staging
Biopsies
Pet scans
CT scans
Visual (structural) exams of the colon and rectum
Colonoscopy every 10 years
CT colonography (virtual colonoscopy) every 5 years
Flexible sigmoidoscopy (FSIG) every 5 years
Lifestyle Choices to Reduce Your Risk of Colon-rectal Cancer
Stop smoking
Limit alcohol intake
Eat a healthy diet
Regular exercise
Maintain healthy weight
Dukes staging (5-year survival)
Stage 0 – Benign
Stage 1 – 90% 5-year survival
Stage 2 – 70% 5-year survival
Stage 3 – 30% 5-year survival
Stage 4 – (Metastasis) <10% 5 year survival
Management
Surgical procedures
Surgical resection – colectomy
The surgical reaction of lymphatic nodes – lymphadenectomy
Chemotherapy
Involves 5-fluorouracil
Metastatic organ removal
Palliative care
Sleep Aid Medication Linked to Increased Risk of Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of dementia, a general term for memory loss and other cognitive abilities serious enough to interfere with daily life. This disease accounts for 60-80% of dementia cases.
The healthcare cost of dementia is estimated at $290 billion in the United States in 2019 alone. The prevalence of dementia doubles every 5 years after the age of 65 and reaches 30% or more among those over the age of 80.
This trend is expected to continue, with the prevalence of dementia estimated to double by 2030. In addition to dementia, approximately 22% of people in the United States over the age of 70 have cognitive impairment without dementia.
Effects of Anticholinergic Drugs
Anticholinergic drugs block the action of acetylcholine. Acetylcholine transmits messages in the nervous system. In the brain, acetylcholine is involved in learning and memory. In the rest of the body, it stimulates muscle contractions. Anticholinergic drugs include antihistamines, tricyclic antidepressants, medications to control an overactive bladder, and drugs to relieve the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease [2].
In the main analysis published on October 23rd, 2020, the investigators did a systematic literature review and meta-analysis assessing the impact of 3 months or longer anticholinergic use on the risk of multiple subtypes of incident dementia.
It also evaluated the association between drugs used to treat overactive bladder and dementia risk such as Oxybutynin. A total of 2122 records were identified. Out of those, 21 studies underwent qualitative synthesis.
Conclusion
Anticholinergic use for ≥3 months increased the risk of dementia on average by an estimated 46% versus nonuse. This relationship was consistent in studies assessing overactive bladder medications. Results of a recent meta-analysis, however, suggest that the link between anticholinergics and cognitive impairment/dementia has not been fully established.
Another Meta-Analysis compared the use of benzodiazepines and the development of dementia. A systematic review and meta-analysis of 12 prospective and retrospective cohort studies with over 980,000 participants suggest an association between the use of benzodiazepines and the development of dementia [3].
However, the current evidence lacks the power to infer differences between the effects of Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementias, long-acting and short-acting benzodiazepines, and various exposure loads (duration and dose).
Do you want to know if you have colon cancer or dementia? Watch our full episode here 👇
TIME STAMPS:
00:00 – Intro 00:50 – Topic for today: Colon Rectal Cancer and Sleep Aids linking to Alzheimer’s 01:55 – Duke Staging System 03:45 – Colon cancer is hereditary 04:18 – A history of colon cancer 04:46 – Hispanics and Americans have a higher risk for colon cancer 06:00 – The Links 07:00 – A Healthy Lifestyle is a Must 09:22 – Viome and other health tests 12:10 – Colon cancer management 13:18 – Surgical management for colon cancer 14:00 – Medications 15:46 – The monetary cost of Dementia 18:18 – Polypharmacy 18:40 – Studies about Dementia 19:20 – Long-term use of Benzos 23:00 – Like Us 24:04 – The best time to change is NOW 25:10 – Take everything with a grain of salt
Today we’d like to welcome Tasha Triana. Tasha is a Southern California native, world traveler of 25+ countries, a registered nurse of 8+ years, certified yoga and meditation teacher, and Reiki practitioner.
Tasha founded her business, The Nurtured Nurse, to teach nurses how to prioritize their own self-care and wellness so they can show up feeling replenished and empowered to live their best lives.
This is Tasha’s second time returning to the show, she was previously on EP 56, where we covered nursing, burnout, mindfulness & mental health.
The questions below are some we’d like to tackle. We go off-topic all the time so we don’t expect to hit them all. If you have any ideas please let us know. Looking forward to our conversation!
Card reading, Arch Angel or Animal
A little bit of background
Masters in Psychology
Why did you go into it, what were/are your intentions?
How has it changed you and how have you incorporated it into your life?
Yoga: Different types of yoga.
How does it feel, the purpose?
Why/when did you get into yoga
How to become a Yoga Teacher
Reiki:
How did you get into it?
What is it?
A healing technique based on the principle that the therapist can channel energy into the patient by means of touch, to activate the natural healing processes of the patient’s body and restore physical and emotional well-being.
The word “Reiki” means “mysterious atmosphere, miraculous sign.” It comes from the Japanese words “rei” (universal) and “ki” (life energy). Reiki is a type of energy healing.
The practitioner places their hands lightly on or over specific areas of the head, limbs, and torso using different hand shapes, for between 2 and 5 minutes. The hands can be placed over 20 different areas of the body.
How has traveling shaped you into who you are today?
Do you want to learn more about meditation, reiki, and yoga? Watch this full episode 👇👇👇
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro 00:13 About Tasha Triana 05:42 What is the Nurtured Nurse? 07:09 Nursing is not an end all, be all 08:03 How Tasha started on meditation 12:30 What is the purpose of meditation? 16:33 Being self-aware 18:21 Different types of meditation 20:17 How to incorporate yoga into a mindful practice 23:52 Yoga for strengthening mental health 27:00 What is Reiki? 31:08 How do people feel during a reiki session? 32:17 What to ask clients 33:00 Influence of Grandmothers 37:39 Everything in the universe is measurable 39:00 The concept of dualism 44:22 Emotions are just there 45:52 Energies and triggers 51:48 Meditation is a mental workout 53:53 The mind and body are in a constant feedback 55:13 Lessons from traveling 58:00 Connect on social media with Tasha 58:25 End of show
So, you’ve passed your NCLEX and you are crossing over from student to practitioner. Your next step should be applying to jobs, but on a unit, you want to work on.
Before you apply for a job
When you are looking for a job there a few things to consider. Get your paperwork together, this includes your:
Resume
IDs
SSC
RN License number
Transcripts
It is always beneficial to keep these items stored together because you are going to be using them a lot for the rest of your life. When you apply to a position you will be filling out a lot of information such as:
Name
Address
School
Experience, etc…
You will also need to input your license number and even proof of graduation.
Resume
Some Universities offer a resume-building workshop or even have it be a requirement to create one in class.
We highly recommend checking out our friends at https://www.theresumerx.com/. We even had Amanda Guarniere on our show, EP 74.
The best place to start looking for jobs is the closest hospital to you. This is the most convenient as some people find themselves driving for 30 – 60 min one way to work. Driving that long shortens your days by about 6 percent.
You should also ask around. Do you know anyone already working in the hospital or clinic? It’s always easier to get into a job knowing someone already there.
Many people recommend taking the first job you get or starting within a specific unit to learn some basic fundamentals. However, we believe that you should always aim for something that you specifically want and exhaust all options before moving on to something different.
This gives you the best chance of figuring out what you want to do in nursing.
The turnover rate is high regardless of what unit. You may realize that the unit you had for the capstone that you really liked wasn’t meeting certain expectations.
Know that this is completely normal, and do not freak out. It takes some time to figure out what you really want to do. Maybe you tried Peds and realized that you get too emotional around kids. It’s normal to switch.
Remember, you want to work in a place you are comfortable and enjoy working in.
If you aren’t a new grad and are applying to different jobs, take travel nursing into consideration. Take this summer to think about it, and when August comes around, you can make your decision for September.
That is a good way to think about it because it is always an option, and who doesn’t like traveling?
Interview
Some of you may have never been in a job interview, and you may have some experience with interviewing for nursing school or a mock interview, but those don’t compare.
We are not going to walk you through the whole interview process, but we will offer you some good questions to ask your future employers.
Do you offer a new graduate nurse program? (if you’re a new grad)
How many weeks, what shift?
Will I be paired with 1 nurse or multiple?
Verify that it is the correct shift – make sure it is a day’s position if that’s what it said on the job posting. Ask if there is a chance to switch shifts, but understand what shift you applied for.
How is the workplace culture? Is there a high turnover rate?
What are the nurse-to-patient ratios on a busy day?
What are the weekend, holiday, and overtime arrangements?
Is there an opportunity for leadership positions and school reimbursement?
When should I expect a call or notification of my acceptance?
So, what do you need to prepare for after the NCLEX? Here’s what you need to do 👇👇👇
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro 00:28 Episode topic: What to expect after your NCLEX exams 01:30 What you need before applying for a job 02:37 Organize your documents 03:08 Create a resume 04:33 Start with people that you know 05:16 Know what kind of specialty that you want to work with 07:33 Interview process 09:08 Ask questions about the work culture 15:55 It’s okay to change units 17:35 Looking over new grads 18:23 Some units that eat their young 19:30 Wrapping up 21:31 End of Show
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