Insights
What’s Something You’re Grateful For That Only A Nurse Could Understand?
Practicing gratitude can be a game-changer: it has far reaching effects, from improving our mental health to boosting our relationships with others.
When you start to notice and identify the...
Best Practices
What Are Your Top Nurse Tips For NOT Getting Sick?
We get it -nurses are always in the “sick” season. But with Covid-19 and the cold and flu...
Education
LPN vs. RN- What’s The Difference?
As the demands in healthcare rise, the need for nurses increases as well. Both licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and registered...
Career
Top Unconventional Nurse Job: Medical Ear Piercing!
Did you know there is such a thing as a NASCAR Nurse? How about a Trauma Flight Nurse?...
Career
3 Signs You’re Ready to Pursue Your Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
Are you a nurse who's ready to take your career and education to the next level? Have you...
Screen Time Or Story Time?
Pediatricians, educators, and parents have always agreed on at least one thing: reading to your toddler - early on in life and regularly -...
Should Technology Be Used To Boost Empathy-Based Medicine?
Should existing digital technologies be used to enable a paradigm shift in current healthcare delivery which focuses on tests, treatments and targets rather than...
Long Shifts Lead To Nurse Burnout And Dissatisfied Patients
Extended work shifts of twelve hours or longer are common and popular among hospital staff nurses, but a study reports that nurses working longer...
Do You Disinfect Your Steth After Each Use?
Do you disinfect your stethoscope after each use?
A recent study revealed that the contamination level of a stethoscope diaphragm after a single use is...
Our Ancestors Probably Didn’t Get 8 Hours A Night, Either
They stay up late into the evening, average less than 6.5 hours of sleep and rarely nap. College students during final exams? Working moms?...
How Do I Deal With Over-Involved Families?
How many times have you wished for responsive family members? You know, the kind who will stay with the patient when you can’t, help...