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Category Archives: The Nurse
Communication 101: The Basics
Communication is an essential tool used in all forms in every position and career. The method of communication used depends on the location [...]
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 [...]
4 Traits Learned from Working Retail that I brought to Nursing
Nursing, as a career takes a jack-of-all-trades. You can go to school and finish top of your class and be a horrible nurse. There are so [...]
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 [...]
RN-to-BSN ...
4 Consideration when finding an RN-to-BSN program
The day of my pinning, I was so proud. I had finished the hardest two years of school that I have ever endured. The next year included t [...]
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 [...]