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...
10 Awesome TV Nurses
The medical world and Hollywood have never been far apart. This partnership has spawned some of the most memorable moments in entertainment — from...
Proposed Advance Care Planning Coverage For Medicare Beneficiaries
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took a step toward improving care for Medicare beneficiaries with serious illnesses by proposing to adopt...
Five Surefire Ways To Calm A Patient
While we nurses are in the business of saving lives, we sometimes have to remember that part of our “business” (I used this term...
3 Specialties That Will Be BIG In The Future
Nursing—and medicine itself—is becoming increasingly specialized as new technologies are developed and as different conditions become more prevalent. It’s hard to know whether that...
Hospice Assists Children In Time Of Grief
While the loss of a loved one is difficult for everyone, a child's limited ability to understand death can make grieving more difficult than...
Painkiller Users Unaware Prescription Drugs Are As Addictive As Heroin
National Safety Council survey shows 45 percent of painkiller users do not know they are taking opioids
Forty-five percent of Americans who use opioid prescription...