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Tips for New Nurses - New Nurse Survival Tips

Tips for New Nurses – How to Survive Your 1st Year as a Nurse

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Knowing a few tips for new nurses are critical to surviving your first year as a nurse. Being a new nurse on the floor can present many terrifying, wonderful and insane experiences (usually all in the same day). Any nurse would be lying if they said that their first year in the workplace was a walk in the park. Sometimes there are ups and downs, often times there are patients that test you, and invariably, there are days full of learning. The unit might not be an episode of Bear Grylls or Mantracker, but it sure is a jungle out there. […]

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Nurses Eat Their Young - Eliminating Victims of Nurse Bullying & Lateral Violence - nurses eat their young lateral violence nurse bully

Nurses Eat Their Young – Eliminating Victims of Nurse Bullying & Lateral Violence

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“Nurses eat their young, you know?” This was the rationale and comfort provided to me when I first sought mentorship from a senior nurse about the poor treatment I was receiving from my nursing peers as a new nurse. I was a victim of nurse bullying, and the solution that was suggested to me was to endure it. It was just a part of the hazing process of new nurses. “This too shall pass,” after all. Like so many nurses who came before me, I was expected to endure poor treatment simply because that’s the way it’s always been. I

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