How to Become A Health Coach
Have you heard about health coaches? This guide will walk you through what a health coach is, and explain how to become a health coach.
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Nursing Resources
Resources for nurses and students
Where to Find Free CEU for Nurses
Don’t pay too much for your continuing education units. There are lots of places you can earn free CEU for nurses.
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Are Nurse’s Notes Becoming a Lost Art?
For centuries nurses have been documenting the day to day activities and interventions of their patients. A well-crafted nurses note is a work of art, not only conveying the important information regarding their patient’s health status and response to treatment but also setting a tone and telling “the patient story.”
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5 Reasons Why Every Perioperative Nurse Should Attend the AORN Conference
A perioperative nurse impacts patients at some of their most vulnerable times. For many patients, a surgery is a significant life event in which every aspect of their medical care can have a life-long impact. The perioperative nursing specialty is continuously evolving requiring nurses to continually seek information and education of new trends and treatments in surgical care.
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Effective Nursing Interventions for Anxiety
Being admitted to the hospital can be a jarring experience. You start the day, living your normal routine, and before you know it you’re lying on a stretcher under intense fluorescent lights with people hovering over you, poking you with needles and talking in a language you’re not really familiar with. Sounds like a scene from a horror movie. Nursing Interventions for Anxiety But nope, this is what our patients go through. And now, as they lie there with all of this going on around them, they contemplate if the life that they loved is perhaps gone and they have
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Are Cheap Scrubs as Good as Expensive Scrubs?
Let’s review the pros and cons of buying scrubs at a premium price and buying cheap scrubs. Are Cheap Scrubs as Good as Expensive Scrubs? If you’re in the market for nursing scrubs, there are a few things you should keep in mind. You could buy a bunch of cheap scrubs and save money, or invest in a couple of pairs of finely-made scrubs that might look better and often last longer. Some of my best scrubs are not expensive- scrubs that aren’t necessarily top-quality but look decent, and with just a little extra care can last a while. Maybe
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Kati Kleber Shares Insight on Becoming a Nurse Author and Admit One
One nurse blogger who I am honored to know is Katie Kleber from FreshRN. If the name sounds familiar, she is the author of the book Becoming Nursey, that takes new nurses from school to bedside with practical advice and some humor. Now Katie is back with her second book, Admit One. Admit One: What You Must Know When Going to the Hospital I recently had a chance to talk to Katie about her newest book Admit One and what it takes to become a nurse author. What is Admit One all about? Who should
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Nurses Eat Their Young – Eliminating Victims of Nurse Bullying & Lateral Violence
“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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5 Survival Tips for the Night Shift Nurse
Being the night shift nurse is a grueling job. Though, it is the shift most nurses start on in their career. I have worked as a labor and delivery nurse for the last 10 years, 8 of them on the night shift. I have come up with these 5 tips that helped me get through it with two kids, a husband, and a dog.
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Nurse Inventions – Could You Become a Maker Nurse?
Have you ever considered becoming a maker nurse? Nurse inventions are being used by healthcare professionals every day to improve patient care. It really makes a lot of sense, if you think about it. Nurses are natural problem solvers. They think on their toes and work on the fly to solve problems for their patients. If they’re short of supplies, they improvise. If an ostomy bag won’t stay intact, they find a way to secure it. Nurses are problem solvers. The leap to becoming a maker nurse and creating nurse inventions really isn’t that far.
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