Career
Have You Ever “Moonlighted” To Supplement Your Nursing Income?
More and more nurses are “moonlighting” to supplement their nursing income. Taking on a second job has become very common in the nursing profession. Many nurses ask for additional...
Career
What Will You Do After Nursing?
Have you been considering a change of career? Nursing can be an incredibly stressful job. After the onset...
Career
What’s Your Favorite Nurse Side Gig?
Side gigs offer many benefits for nurses looking to earn extra money, enjoy a change of scenery or...
Career
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,...
Career
What’s The Most Embarrassing Thing You’ve Said to A Patient?
Mistakes happen. Nurses are only human, after all. They share intimate moments with complete strangers, which can lead...
Your First ‘Code’
Lately I’ve been reflecting a lot on what it was like being a new nurse. Everybody remember their first code? Here’s a blog post...
Does Employment of More Nurse Assistants Lead to Higher Mortality Rates And Lower Quality Care?
It's an important topic we've talked about before -do hospitals that employ more nurse assistants relative to the number of professionally qualified nurses have...
10 Nurse Bloopers As Told By Nurses
We all know that to err is human, and can give us a chuckle in the meantime. And while it may be considered bad...
The Dos And Don’ts Of Nursing
Nursing is a vastly complex career, and a career in nursing can often be totally stressful and hard to manage. There’s so much to...
Did You Read It? Blogger’s Ode To Labor Nurse
Labor and delivery nurses --hard to put into words how much of a difference these everyday heroes made in the lives of their patients....
5 Things Nurses Can’t Live Without
Stethoscopes, blood pressure monitors, medication guides. These are all essential items that your patients may not be able to live without. Add a notebook...