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...

Top 10 Ways Nurses Boost Their Moods on the Job

More code browns than you can count? Patients driving you up the wall? Tired of being, well, tired? We feel ya! Nursing’s a tough...

Peace of Mind for Nurses

There’s no question that a nurse’s day-to-day routine translates into a level of stress that, over a very short amount of time, threatens to take...

Have You Read The Shift?

Looking for a good book recommendation?  Palliative care nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown chronicles a day in the life of a nurse as well as...

10 Emotions Every Nurse Experiences at the End of a Shift

. Ah, yes—the final sprint to the finish line at the end of a 12-hour shift. A time as terrifying as it is hopeful. Of course, no two...

If Nurse Stock Photos Could Speak: 10 Captions That’ll Crack You Up!

Ever wonder what nurses might be saying if their stock photo images could speak? Now you don’t have to. Is this nursing heaven? But wait,...

Perspectives: The Nurse Who Cared

In 1977, photos were taken of a nurse at Albany Medical Center as she comforted infant Amanda Scarpinati in the pediatric unit. Scarpinati had been severely...