25 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Nursing
So, you’ve finally survived nursing school. You managed to get out alive from all those nights with no decent sleep, those days when the hours didn’t seem enough for you...
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13 Things you might not know about Nursing
las! Finally, after years of hard work and burning midnight candles, you finally and officially are now a Registered Nurse. You survived all those toxic years in nursing school, you...
Quenching the Burn
Last week, I talked to you about the dangers of becoming burned out in your nursing field. Ever heard the phrase, “the best offense is a good defense”? The best...
Feeling the Burn?
Or just plain fizzled out? Burnout. We all know it happens to the best of us. None of us are immune. I think we all must hit this wall somewhere...
Changes on Nursing Homes to Enhance Elderly Care
Toni Davis has been oriented to a nursing home since her childhood, spending lots of time where her mother acted as the director in such a facility in West Orange,...
Top 10 Nursing Issues
Nursing is a profession which is always faced with changes, needing updates and needing the professional’s ongoing education, not only with the skills required to perform their duty but with...
Online Nursing Programs
The demand for nurses has been high the previous years, especially in developed countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom. Although there are reports as of now...
Nurses at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center Preparing for a Strike
Nurses at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center are preparing for a strike possibly next week due to some disagreements in a contract made between them and the hospital. The union...
The “Special” Nursing Role
Nurse practitioners and doctors have often been likened today. In Alberta, nurse practitioners have been called to be “physician replacements” as the number of physician residents in the hospital have...
10 Commandments for Nurses
Commandment Number 1: Thou Shalt Provide Comfort and Empathy to Patients in a Day-to-day Basis.
Commandment Number 2: Thou Shalt Respect Patient Confidentiality and Privacy.
Commandment Number 3: Thou shalt not predict your patient’s vital signs; you are a nurse not a fortune-teller.
Commandment Number 4: Thou shalt not wear trendy shoes during your shift.
Commandment Number 5: Thou shalt not direct patient’s uneaten dessert or meals to your bags or mouth.
Commandment Number 6: Thou shalt keep in mind that the best medicine a nurse can offer is offering warm smiles of greetings to the patient.
Commandment Number 7: Thou shalt not pass on all of the tasks to new nurses or volunteers.
Commandment Number 8: Thou shalt keep the nurses station quiet.
Commandment Number 9: Thou shalt avoid physical burn-out by taking good care of thyself.
Commandment Number 10: Thou shalt not call your patient with hilarious nicknames such as ‘Mr. Farter’ and the like.
