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Category Archives: The Nurse
5 Items to use at Work
**This blog contains affiliate links** The items you bring to work does not necessarily all help with patient care; there are items that nur [...]
4 Lessons learned after my first code as an RN
No matter the length of time you`ve been a nurse, you will at one point come across a code. My first code occurred at the end of my shift, a [...]
Tips when being Floated to Another Unit
Floating to another floor occurs when another unit needs to borrow a nurse. I worked less than a year the first time I was floated. It was [...]
4 Reasons to mentor and pay it forward
There are some people that I would thank in my nursing journey. The professors that sat with me to go over exams one-to-one and help me to [...]
The Ideal Night
The ideal night…boring but appreciated. Somewhere between nursing school and working as a nurse, I developed what a typical night woul [...]
4 Issues with working at night
I grew up in a household with a single-mother working third shift. My grandfather worked third shift, my sister worked third shift, and now [...]
Communication 101: Getting the message across
Communication is a considerable portion of each shift, nurse to nurse, nurse to physician, and of course, nurse to patient. In an earlier [...]
My first year in review
My unit has a staff meeting every quarter. Usually, we are given an option of three dates the time is the same 7:30am to 8:30 am. ItR [...]
3 Reasons why I wish I could have started Nursing Earlier
Nursing was not the first career field I went into nor was it my first major in college. It was in my mid-twenties the decision to go back [...]
What is SBAR?
Whether you are a student at post-clinical meetings or a nurse speaking to a physician, I bet some report necessary. The template used the m [...]