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...

Did you read it? — A nurse by herself. At the end of a life.

As a nurse, we are invited in to some of the most important and intimate moments of life -from birth to death and everything...

Overheard From The Nurse’s Station

A group of us + a few too many cups of coffee = this article idea: Some of the stuff we encounter at work...

17 Tricks to Make Halloween a Treat

Halloween is a fun and exciting time for children. They get to dress up as pirates, princesses and monsters, and receive an overwhelming amount...

6 Halloween Don’ts For Nurses

It’s that time of year again! Pumpkins and enormous bags of questionable candies are showing up on store shelves (well, okay, they’ve been there...

WATCH: A Rap Video on the Importance of Hand Hygiene

Let’s take a look at the lighter side of infection prevention with this fun video about the importance of hand-washing! In the video below, UAB Medicine employees, led...

TED Talks: The Love Of Lifelong Learning

We here at ModernNurse love TED Talks! They inspire, encourage, educate and broaden our views of the world -with perspectives from experts, artists, educators, healthcare...