Category Archives: The New Nurse or Graduate Nurse
What is a toxic work environment?
Don’t stay at a toxic job. Get out of toxic relationships. These are all extremely common, read a magazine, a self help book, or a blog ar [...]
Orientation and the New Nurse
No matter whether you are a seasoned nurse or a new graduate, the one thing everyone will encounter is orientation. At a new hospital no mat [...]
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 [...]
Don’t be afraid to leave your comfort zone
Several nurses complete their nursing clinical at one hospital and gain employment in the unit. The nurse becomes comfortable knowing no dif [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Problematic Hospital Applications
It’s been three different hospitals in three states. Each one began with an application process. I have avoided some based on the process. [...]