Career
DNP vs. NP- What’s the Difference?
If you could further your nursing education at the highest level to advance your career, what path would you take? Some may consider becoming a nurse practitioner (NP), while...
Best Practices
Nurse Scheduling Nightmares
How two clever nurse managers found low cost options to streamline scheduling.
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Career
Advice To Management On The Occasion Of Nurses Week
Happy National Nurses Week, ModernNurse readers!
We know your jobs are hard ones. You get all of the kicks and...
Insights
No ‘One-Size-Fits-All’ for Boosting Patient Satisfaction
The factors that determine the level of patient satisfaction with pediatric care vary significantly depending on which departmental...
Career
More than 234,000 licensed nurse practitioners in the US
More than 234,000 nurse practitioners (NPs) are licensed in the United States, according to the American Association of Nurse...
How to Create a Complete Nurse’s Survival Guide for Your Break Room
There’s nothing we love to see more than nurses helping nurses. Why? Because nurses have unique needs, situations and challenges, and few are better...
Nurses on the Front Lines: When Patients Attack
All nurses have stories to tell about “problem” patients. Usually, these stories are funny rather than scary. There’s one patient who finds ridiculous things...
10 Biggest Nurse Mistakes
We all make mistakes; it’s just part of being human. But in nursing, these mistakes can have life-or-death consequences. Here are 10 shocking and...
14 Pieces of Advice For a New Nurse
Remember the good old days --fresh out of nursing school, new job, new shift, new hospital. Actually good old days might be stretching it...
8 Reactions to Outrageous Thanksgiving Injuries
Ah, Thanksgiving. A time for family, for friends, for gratitude and for really, really questionable injuries.
Of course, any nurse who’s been roped into a...
Finding the Silver Lining During a No Good, Very Bad Day
If anything helps a person hone in on the things that really matter, it’s nursing. That said, there are still those days when you definitely have...