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...

Implantable Wireless Devices Trigger, and May Block, Pain Signals

Building on wireless technology that has the potential to interfere with pain, scientists have developed flexible, implantable devices that can activate -- and, in...

Historic Nursing Uniforms: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Ah, the portrait of a nurse. The freshly starched dress, that sharp little hat (oh, that hat!), the coveted pin; remnants of an era long...

5 Ways You Can Use Social Media to Land Your Next Nurse Job

While social media is certainly a powerful force in many aspects of our everyday lives, it may not seem like the most obvious tool...

What Secrets Are Nurses Keeping From the Rest of the World?

Here’s a fun fact that most people don’t know about healthcare: Nurses see all, hear all and know all. We asked the nurses who follow our...

The Top 25 Inspirational Things About Nursing

For a nurse, inspiration is as important as breathing—we need oxygen for our souls. Just as we check to see if our patients are...

Be Inspired By “The Call of Nursing: Stories From The Front Lines of Health Care”

Every so often, we stumble across a book on nursing that we can’t wait to share with our readers. Our newest pick?   William B. Patrick’s The...