Category Archives: Night Shift Nursing
Get paid what you’re worth
This past year I made a cross-country move from Nevada to my home state of Connecticut. Along with the typical stress of a move, we also add [...]
Time Management and the Slow Shift
Every so often it occurs, a slow shift. Patients aren’t calling, everyone is stable, everyone takes their medication. These shifts are few [...]
PTSD and the Nurse
PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a mental health condition characterized by depression, anxiety, flashbacks, nightmares, and other [...]
Nursing jobs away from the bedside
After moving, I needed a new job. The last six years I have been on a medical-surgical, surgical oncology, orthopedic, respiratory, and medi [...]
Why are nurses leaving the bedside
We are three years into a pandemic and there has been a surge of nurses leaving the bedside and the field all together. A survey completed b [...]
How Covid Affected Me as a Nurse
2020 was supposed to be a great year, 20/20 vision for the New Year. A year of hope and a new beginning as we entered into a new decade. Unt [...]
Dealing with Constant Death
In the nursing field, we are the ones to see the birth and the death of people. Most of us only know the latter unless we work in labor and [...]
Bad habits and the Nurse
The longer you’re a nurse, the more bad habits you’ll pick up during your shift. When I sat down to brainstorm bad habits, I realized th [...]
The Complexities of a Travel Nurse
Several nurses during the 2020 year became travelers. A travel nurse is a nurse that works as a contractor. They work in a hospital and get [...]
Why I wish I did Travel Nursing
I have always said that if I were a little younger and single, I would love to have been a Travel Nurse. I became a nurse in my early thirti [...]