Nursing Skills You are Gonna NeedThere are some nursing skills that you need to do this job. The most important is to have time management skills. In a typical day you have to be able to take report from the off-going nurse, see all your patients, chart your assessments, give your medications and help everyone with their meals—and that is just in the first 2 hours of your day!A good candidate to be a nurse is able to manage his or her time well. Sure, everyone will have their off days, but you should be working on your time management skills now so that you can be prepared when you get going as a nurse. Click here for more info on time management for nurses. 
Another skill you should master if you want to be a nurse is the ability to multi-task. In your personal life, I am all for NOT multi-tasking and enjoying one thing at a time. As a nurse however, this is not a possibility. Imagine you have four patients during your shift. While you are working on discharge instructions for one, the doctor calls you for information on another, then there is a family member standing there waiting for you to get off the phone to ask you a question. I wish I was making this scenario up. Nursing is a hard working profession and requires the skill of multi-tasking. Having at least average social skills is the last of the three nursing skills I think great RNs have. You don’t need to be the life of the party. You do have to remember that you work with people all day everyday as a nurse and you have to be able to talk to them. You will see people in their most compromised positions. Yes, there will be some awkwardness, but a person with decent social skills will be able to make the best of it for the patient. I love these tips on how to improve your basic social skills.
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