Tag Archives: new nurse
A Clove Review
Let’s start this review with the boring administrative stuff to get it out of the way. This review is based on my options. I am not an aff [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
9 Questions to ask at an interview
Interviews will happen, unless you plan to work in the first unit you’ve been hired too and never leave. At one point will transfer units, [...]