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...
Nurses In Debt : Financial Issues Facing Today’s Healthcare Workers
With tuition costs rising throughout the country, graduate nurses, and Millennials in general, are entering the workforce with more debt than ever before. In...
Ask Auntie Aggie : “The New Doctor Is Making Me REALLY Uncomfortable”
Dear Auntie Aggie:
I need help! A doctor got hired a few months ago in my hospital, and the way he’s acting is making me...
What’s the Hardest Nursing Specialty?
No one ever said nursing was easy (at least, no nurse has ever said such a foolish thing). Some shifts can feel like going...
Did you read it? Hospitals Sicken Many By Withholding Food and Sleep
A Johns Hopkins surgeon and prominent patient safety researcher is calling on hospitals to reform emergency room, surgical and other medical protocols that sicken up...
The 5 Nurse Bully Types Every Hospital is Hiding
Sometimes, the hospital feels like a giant playground filled with lots of expensive equipment. That’s because earning a set of scrubs doesn’t necessarily eliminate one’s bad...
5 Things Hospitals Can Do to Improve Outcomes of Weekend Surgeries
Studies have shown that patients who undergo surgeries on weekends tend to experience longer hospital stays and higher mortality rates and readmissions.
For the first...