Tag Archives: nursing
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Why are nurses leaving the bedside
We are three years into a pandemic and there has been a surge of nurses leaving the bedside and the field all together. A survey completed b [...]
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 [...]
4 Traits Learned from Working Retail that I brought to Nursing
Nursing, as a career takes a jack-of-all-trades. Â You can go to school and finish top of your class and be a horrible nurse. Â There are so [...]