Category Archives: Becoming a Better Nurse
What is Self-Care
Caregiver fatigue is real. It occurs over time when you’re giving care to someone, whether as a nurse, family member, or friend. All y [...]
A Clove Review
Let’s start this review with the boring administrative stuff to get it out of the way. This review is based on my options. I am not an aff [...]
Equality of Night versus Day Shift
The hospital, any hospital, is an operation that runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Patients are present either in the emergency room or [...]
Cons to working Nights
Hospitals are open 24-hours, which means after the managers, social workers and other office workers go home for the day, the patients are s [...]
How to work through imposture syndrome
Are you a new nurse? Are you a season nurse? Or are you starting on a new unit? No matter if you have been in the field for years or you are [...]
What is a toxic work environment?
Don’t stay at a toxic job. Get out of toxic relationships. These are all extremely common, read a magazine, a self help book, or a blog ar [...]
Nursing Imposter Syndrome
As a brand new nurse, I did not know what I was doing. No one does. School teaches with the most ideal environments and in the most complian [...]
Comfort Zone and Nursing
It’s all over nursing, social media and forums, nurses encouraging other to leave the toxic work environments. From an outside perspective [...]
Don’t be afraid to leave your comfort zone
Several nurses complete their nursing clinical at one hospital and gain employment in the unit. The nurse becomes comfortable knowing no dif [...]
Time Management and the New Nurse
First, shift off orientation, you feel free and scared. Your first assignment alone with six patients. No kid glove, no taking it easy. Youâ [...]