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...
Drug Dependency In The Nursing Field
Fans of the show Nurse Jackie are familiar with the concept of drug addiction among nurses, but they might not realize that this is...
Congratulations Nurses – You’re America’s Most Trusted Professionals
Nursing: America’s Most Trusted Profession
Yet again, nursing has been rated the most trusted profession in Gallup’s annual poll on the honesty and ethics of...
Are Nurses Immune to The Gender Pay Gap?
One may assume that with a gender slanted profession like nursing, there would be no gender pay gap, or at the very least it...
5 Sure Fire Ways to Get Fired
If you’ve read some of the horror stories on Nurses losing their license, you’ll be right to wonder what they were doing in Nursing...
Beyond Direct Patient Care: Five Nursing Specialties to Consider
Being a nurse does not have to involve direct patient care. Nurses have a number of career options available to them if they want...
Countdown To An 80% BSN Workforce By 2020
by Elizabeth Ann Boman Miquelon BSN, RN
In 2010, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), known at that time as the Institute of Medicine, recommended that...