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...
Artificial ‘Skin’ Could Provide Prosthetics With Sensation
Using flexible organic circuits and specialized pressure sensors, researchers have created an artificial "skin" that can sense the force of static objects and transfer...
Back Pain, Be Gone—5 Tips for Nurses
Back pain. Among nurses, it’s at least enemy #3, if not #2 or even #1. What’s worse, nurses don’t exactly have the luxury of...
5 People You Should NOT Talk To About Work Stress
Whom do you turn to for support and encouragement when a shift becomes too stressful to handle? The nursing profession is difficult enough—especially when...
How Do You Take Your Sick Days? We’re Guessing “Rare.”
Nurses know best the importance of taking care of oneself—from logging enough sleep each night to taking it easy when a case of something...
Should Dogs Be Allowed in Hospitals?
Over the past couple of decades it has become increasingly common to find dogs lounging around offices during work hours. Now our furry friends are making...
Q&A: How Do I Cope With Workplace Drama?
Here’s a fact: If you’re an average nurse, you work for around one third of your life. And if you take on overtime or...