I’m An RN Now… Now What?

Nursing school prepared you to become an RN. Now it’s time to learn how to become the nurse you were called to be.

I’m An RN Now… Now What? is a comprehensive 12-month digital professional development workbook created specifically for new graduate registered nurses navigating their first year of professional nursing practice.

Nearly 400 pages of practical tools, guided reflection, clinical reasoning exercises, professional development, and faith-based encouragement walk with you from your first days at the bedside through the transition into your second year of nursing.

This is not a workbook you complete in a weekend. It is designed to grow with you throughout your first year.

Inside, you’ll work through real areas of development that matter to a new nurse, including:

• Building your clinical brain and learning to prioritize

• Organizing your patient assignment and managing your shift

• Strengthening clinical reasoning and recognizing changes in your patients

• Communicating with providers, preceptors, leaders, patients, and the healthcare team

• Documentation, delegation, safety, and professional accountability

• Receiving feedback and navigating conflict

• Finding your professional voice and learning when to speak up

• Building confidence without pretending to know everything

• Protecting your professional reputation and practicing with integrity

• Processing difficult shifts, mistakes, first codes, and patient loss

• Developing leadership skills and preparing for Year Two

• Tracking your growth and creating evidence of the nurse you are becoming

  
  

You’ll also find patient brain and assignment tools, communication scripts, quick-reference resources, monthly reflections, goal-setting activities, pre-shift prayer, Scripture, devotionals, and faith-centered encouragement woven throughout the journey.

Created by Kimako Desvignes, DNP, MSN, RN, NE-BC — The Faith Nurse, I’m An RN Now… Now What? combines practical nursing wisdom, professional growth, reflection, and faith to help new nurses move beyond simply surviving their first year.

Your first year is more than something to get through. It is the foundation of the nurse you are becoming.

Your First Year: From New Graduate to Confident Nurse.