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New iPhone Feature Unleashes Fun Options for Nurses

Apple just dropped a hidden gem in their latest iOS update: the ability to set any sound as your ringtone or text tone. And honestly? Nurses are about to...

Wave of Firings Expected Due to New iPhone Feature

Preview: A little-publicized feature in Apple’s new iOS 26 may have unintended workplace consequences. For the first time,...

How Do You Handle A Mistake At Work?

Have you ever charted on the wrong patient? Hung a drug that had the wrong name on it,...

What Are Your Top Nurse Tips For NOT Getting Sick?

We get it -nurses are always in the “sick” season. But with Covid-19 and the cold and flu...

Tell Me You’re A Nurse Without Telling Me You’re A Nurse

Here’s a fun, lighthearted nurse exercise to brighten your day. Tell me you’re a nurse without telling me...

6 Things Nurses Say Under Their Breath Every Shift

As nursing professionals, we have to be tactful — with our patients and with each other. There are always things we wish we could...

A Practical Overnight Kit For Nurses

This past winter, I had to stay over a couple of days at work. Once I stayed with a friend, once in a room...

Snow Day For Nursing?

I live in southern California, land of sunny summers almost all year long. Right?  WRONG! I was driving home today when the rain hitting...

Are You A Vending Machine Sinner?

Every day, all of us make choices about how to satisfy our need for food. Unfortunately for many of us in nursing, and despite...

A Cloudy Forecast At Work?

This is once again an inside joke among nurses. I myself have been labeled the ‘black cloud.’ It has happened in my last three...

More Indispensable Nursing Gear

Nurses are creatures of habit. The interesting thing is that nursing produces some very different habits from all facets of our profession. There are...