How to Sleep for Night Shift
Wondering how to sleep for night shift? These tips show you how to fall asleep fast and make your night shifit sleep schedule work for you.
Nurse Lifestyle
The Nurse Lifestyle is complex. We wear have different priorities, wear different clothes, and have a different perspective on the world than “normal” people. The Nurse Lifestyle category focuses on topics devoted to improving the lifestyle of nurses.
Essential Self-Care Ideas and Destress Tips For Nurses
From yoga to healthy eating, these essential self-care ideas will make all the difference in your life as a nurse. Destress and stay healthy.
Meal Prep Tips For Nurses: Save Time and Eat Healthy
When you are short on time but still want to eat healthy, meal prep is the answer. These meal prep tips for busy people – like nurses – are amazing!
Funny Nursing Student Shirts That Are the Best Kind of Cheesy
Funny Nursing Student Shirts That Are the Best Kind of Cheesy. Find a shirt that sums up how you feel about nursing school! These are the best nursing student shirts – cheesy, funny, and totally you!
Nurse Symbols: The Origin and the History
We see nurse symbols around us all of the time, and we likely don’t think twice about them. The symbols are on nursing pins, medical jewelry, scrub tops, pens, and badge holders. Some of us may have even used them at our pinning ceremony without comprehending the reason behind them. We know that they indicate a nurse, but do we know where they come from? Do we know what they mean?
What does PRN Stand for and When Should it Be Used?
PRN is from the latin term “Pro Re Nata”, which literally translates into English “as needed”. We frequently utilize this “as needed” terminology with medicine, and nurses daily hand out PRN medications for a variety of different reasons.
7 Prayers for Surgery – A Surgery Prayer for Every Occasion
The most popular prayers for before and after surgery come from Catholic, Protestant, and Greek Orthodox Christian faiths. The Jewish Mi Sheberakh is a wonderful prayer for both times.
The Best Vein Finder Lights and How They Work
As a nurse, you depend on your tools to make your job easier. Discover the best vein finder lights and learn how they work – all right here. How Do Vein Finder Lights Work? The science behind vein finder lights is pretty …
10 Ways to Describe the C Diff Smell
Being able to identify the C Diff smell is almost a right of passage in nursing. I’ve heard the C Diff smell described in so many ways. The most thing I’ve heard nurses says is “C diff smells sweet.”
What Does It Mean to Blow a Vein?
Starting IVs is one of the most exciting skills new nurses learn, and it can also be one of the most difficult. While threading a plastic catheter into a vein may seem straightforward when reading about it in a book, in practice, many things can go wrong or make the process more difficult. You may hear many nurses talk about “blowing a vein” when they were not successful in an IV start. However, what does it mean to blow a vein?