I mentioned to my charge nurse this morning that I wish I'd started looking at it before I took the job. I am getting ready to take ACLS next month, so right now I'm glued to the American Heart Association's preparation materials. Don't get me started on the oddball cases - they're the icing on the cake. It's very challenging, and the pace is great. Ask lots of questions on the floor and you'll do fine! Good luck! I've found that it helps me to consolidate my theoretical knowledge with applied practice and to identify gaps in my learning. I am orientating to emerg and am a new grad and what I've done that helps me also is to make case studies out of patients I've had, and go back and review everything that was done, why they were done, if things could have been done differently and why, and review related lab work and body systems. Also, get an older but recent copy of advanced medical life support and ACLS and trauma nurse core course from somewhere like.
So you feel prepared for the major things - tho the majority of emerg nursing (as per my experience) has been much more medical clinic type presentations as compared to true emergent or critical situations. They get right to the point in those and offer step-by-step for trauma's and emergencies like acute asthmatic attacks, heart attack, etc. As a previous poster mentioned, get some pre-hospital paramedic books.
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