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...

What Will You Do After Nursing?

Have you been considering a change of career? Nursing can be an incredibly stressful job. After the onset...

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...

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’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 Are More RNs Deciding to Travel?

Travel nurses fill short- and long-term staffing needs at hospitals across the U.S. The popularity of travel nursing is in part due to a decades-long...

What Do You Think? –The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses

A recent opinion piece in The New York Times has got a lot of people talking, especially nurses. It focuses on the exploitation of...

Did You See It? –Nurse Comforts Boy After Tonsil Surgery

Don't you just love when a positive story about an amazing nurse goes viral!? Here's one that caught our attention. After 5-year-old Slade Thompson woke...

What “Useless” Advice Did You Get That Turned Out To Be True?

We've all received unsolicited advice --at work, in life, online. But sometimes the advice that we thought was totally useless at the time can...

When Is it Okay to Use Personal Devices at Work?

Nurses are often asked to work long hours and, like most professionals, they like to send personal texts and emails while on the job....

What do you think? –Washington Senator Says Nurses ‘Play Cards’ for ‘Considerable Amount of the Day’

No doubt you've heard the news and seen the coverage about the Washington state senator suffering from a severe case of foot in mouth...