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...
Ouchies & Boo–Boos : Easing The Pain Of Your Littlest Patients
It could be argued that a pediatric nurse has double the work of any other. The patients may be smaller, but the work involved...
Beyond Direct Patient Care: Five Nursing Specialties to Consider
Being a nurse does not have to involve direct patient care. Nurses have a number of career options available to them if they want...
Countdown To An 80% BSN Workforce By 2020
by Elizabeth Ann Boman Miquelon BSN, RN
In 2010, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), known at that time as the Institute of Medicine, recommended that...
3 Big Lessons I Learned When My Patient Almost Fell
It was a normal day, except I felt extra determined to get my patient out of bed. Maybe my coffee was double strength, who...
“How Do I Land A New Nursing Job?”
Doing everything right when you’re applying for a job isn’t impossible — it just takes going that extra mile. Below, in this week’s episode of...
The Top 10 Things I’ve Learned After My First 10 Years of Nursing
Nurses, some pearls of wisdom from Aunt Aggie…
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If you have to mess with it, it’s wrong.
Everybody’s heard the story of the nurse who connects...