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...
What Do You Do When a Patient Dies?
We live in a culture where most people rigorously avoid talking about death, much less witnessing it firsthand. Over the course of a lifetime, the...
6 Halloween Don’ts For Nurses
It’s that time of year again! Pumpkins and enormous bags of questionable candies are showing up on store shelves (well, okay, they’ve been there...
TED Talks: The Love Of Lifelong Learning
We here at ModernNurse love TED Talks! They inspire, encourage, educate and broaden our views of the world -with perspectives from experts, artists, educators, healthcare...
White/Gold or Black/Blue? The Brain’s Dress Code
One dress - two perceptions. For some, it is black-blue, for others, it is white-gold. In a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, the...
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...
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...