Category Archives: Stress-Free Nursing
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 [...]
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 [...]
Why I work nights
I have worked nights for the entirety of my nursing career. The few day-shifts I’ve worked were for orientation as a new nurse or at a new [...]
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 [...]
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A Comparison of Multicolored Pens
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]