Category Archives: Becoming a Better Nurse
Self-Care for the Nurse at Home
Self-care for the Nurse starts at home. It feels like we spend most of our time at work, and if you go in for extra shifts, you might. [...]
How to Decipher Medical Abbreviations
Whether you’re a nursing student reviewing a patient’s chart, studying a lecture, or a nurse who has worked in the same unit for [...]
Self Care and the Nurse at Work
Originally this article was going to be self-care and the nurse, but as I outline my ideas, I realized that they could break up into at home [...]
Cons of a Standardized Brain
When the management on my hospital floor decided to have a standardized nurse’s brain for everyone, this began with a mixed set of res [...]
4 Pros of Standardized brains
A nurse’s brain is an essential tool for the day to day process of the nurse. Even in nursing school going into clinical, I would try [...]
My Initial Fears of Moving as a Nurse
My husband came home and announced that his company wanted us to relocate to another state as soon as we can after a discussion about projec [...]
4 Things to keep in mind when giving report
It’s the end of a twelve-hour shift, and the next shift is coming in. Now it’s up to you to report to the oncoming nurse. But wh [...]
Nurse Culture: Nurses Eat their Young
In my experience as a nurse on two Medical-Surgical units, different hospitals and states. I am lucky to have experienced two great teams of [...]
Importance of finding balance
Are you overwhelmed? Nurses work several schedules; full time, part-time, Per Diem, an eight-hour or twelve-hour shifts. Even with the choic [...]
The Anatomy of a Code
The last code I was involved in wasn’t my parent. I was outside the room, documenting in the hallway. The patient’s significant [...]