Category Archives: Becoming a Better Nurse

Trust Your Gut

Have you ever had that gnawing feeling that something’s not right? Your stomach twist, although there is not one particular thing that jum [...]

Nurses, Don`t Eat Your Young

“Nurses eat their young,” a saying I heard in school.  What exactly does it mean, well, more or less it’s a work culture of bully [...]

5 Reasons why I am waiting on my Masters

Nursing is my second career.  It wasn’t until I was 29 years old that I was accepted into my nursing program.  I received my associa [...]

How not to treat your Tech

Patient Care Technicians, PCT, or Certified Nurses’ Assistants, CNA, are a great and under-appreciated member of the healthcare team.  Du [...]

4 Tips to staying calm during the craziest shifts

The perspective I had in my head of a typical shift when I was a student and what that actually looks like is two entirely different concept [...]

3 Reasons why the nurse should learn another language

The nurse is a caregiver, not only to the patient but also the family.  Nurses educate, demonstrate, and assess, to accomplish all this the [...]

5 Reasons Why the Patient Care Technician is imperative to the nurse

Teamwork is being able to perform your job while depending on other members and also helping out each other when it’s necessary. In any ho [...]

DIY Brain Sheet

Brain sheets are great tools that can be used by the nursing student or the nurse. Most nurses have their own method of keeping notes on pat [...]

4 Ways I am getting more out of my BSN while working

  My nursing career began with my Associates Nursing Degree (AND).   A popular plan for students to just getting into a four-year pro [...]

5 Intimidations of being a New Nurse

The transition between student nurse and a registered nurse was a shock. As a student during clinical, you are not able to do anything witho [...]
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