Tag Archives: graduate nurse
When to cut out or cut back caffeine
Caffeine, whether in the traditional coffee or in the millennial method of energy drink, is consumed by nearly everyone. A twelve hour or [...]
NCLEX ...
After the NCLEX: The Hours After
The screen turns black, you sit there staring at the screen, trying to come to the conclusion that it’s over. The years of school, c [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How to Organize Notes and Write an EBP Paper
All the research has been read, and notes have been taken. Now it’s time to organize and write the paper. #1 Organization of [...]
How to Research for an Evidence-Based Paper My Way
Nursing is a field that progresses through research with a method using the scientific method. The entire process of researching the liter [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]