I’d like to welcome you to my first blog post on Teach Us Things .  This blog was the love child that came of a new job opportunity.  I recently embarked on a new journey after 11 years in my most recent facility with several other new colleagues/acquaintances.  There are 8 of us in total that started and are bound for the emergency department in a 500 bed hospital.  We went through general corporate and nursing orientation together and got to know one another a little bit better.  Realizing that my years of experience was greater than everyone’s total made me the “old one”.  As we progressed through the process together there was an identified knowledge deficit for the new nurses as well as me.  This isn’t a bad thing though, it’s just an opportunity to learn, share knowledge, and make our profession better. Starting a new job is never easy, new people, new routines, new policies and procedures, and new equipment.  All of these are anxiet...