Category Archives: Stress-Free Nursing
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 [...]
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A Comparison of Multicolored Pens
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Nursing Imposter Syndrome
As a brand new nurse, I did not know what I was doing. No one does. School teaches with the most ideal environments and in the most complian [...]
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 [...]
Get paid what you’re worth
This past year I made a cross-country move from Nevada to my home state of Connecticut. Along with the typical stress of a move, we also add [...]
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 [...]
PTSD and the Nurse
PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a mental health condition characterized by depression, anxiety, flashbacks, nightmares, and other [...]
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 [...]