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...
Why Nurses Over 50 Can’t Find Jobs
When I first started nursing school, I revered the older and highly experienced Registered Nurses who represented what we all aspired to be. I...
5 Steps You Need To Take To Get Your Nursing Informatics Degree
Nursing informatics is an exploding field of opportunity! In this specialty, nurses use their nursing background coupled with advanced information management training to design...
Do “New Nurses” Scare You, Too?
Lately I find myself becoming quite the cynic. I’m not a cynical nurse, I’m just discovering things throughout my ‘world’ that are cause for...
How To Deal With The Patient No One Wants To Take
As nurses, we all occasionally run into patients that could be described as “difficult.” For any of a variety of reasons, they’re unusually difficult...
15 More Memorable “First-Time” Nurse Moments
They make us laugh. They make us cry. They are "first time" nurse memories that have left an indelible mark on us. Our "First...
Top 10 Things This Nurse Is Thankful For
For nurses, being thankful is a state of being. We spend our time at work and away from work thinking on how fortunate we...