Guest Blog Post: A Mother’s Goodbye
Just like I’ve done one hundred times before, I recently held a young patient’s hand while we withdrew life support and they passed away. We have to stay in the rooms throughout the passing in order...
View ArticlePractical Christmas Gifts for Nurses and Nursing Students!
Tis the season of gift-giving! Below is my list of nurse-gift suggestions from the lesser expensive to expensive. I’m not a big quote person or someone who enjoys novelty items.. I’m a super...
View ArticleNurses: Thankful Every Shift
It’s that time of year where everyone starts to think of things they’re thankful for and talks about them on social media. Nurses however… we are a different bunch. Every time we go into work, we are...
View ArticleNurse Product Review: NurseWatches.com
For today’s post, I am partnering with NurseWatches.com to review their product, which is a watch for nurses! This review is honest and of my own personal opinion. A little that I have learned about...
View ArticleFor the Overwhelmed New Graduate Nurse
So you’ve just started your new job as a new graduate nurse. You have a great preceptor, you like your unit, and your manager seems pretty cool. But you dread going to work. You get report and...
View ArticleAssisted Suicide: A Nurse’s Perspective
This is a guest blog post written by fellow nurse author, Susan Allison-Dean, MSN RN. This can be a pretty emotionally-charged topic and was interested to hear about her research during graduate...
View ArticleSaving Sight – the Toyota Effect
This post was created in partnership with Toyota. All opinions expressed in the post are my own and not those of Toyota. I recently was able to take part in reviewing a film created by Oscar-nominated...
View Article#NursePraiseLove Nursing Giveaway
Occasionally companies sponsoring giveaways for nurses contact me. I usually don’t post about them unless they are offering something kind of awesome. Well team, I found an awesome one! This is...
View ArticleNurse Author Book Review: “The Sacrament of the Goddess” by Joe Niemczura, MS RN
Alright everyone, time for a nursey book review! Please note, I was not compensated for this book review in any way. I am an extremely picky reader. I have been known to read two pages and stop. I’ll...
View ArticleProduct Review – CEUFast.com, a Nursing CEU Website
For this week’s product review, I am going to discuss a website called CEUFast.com. Thank you to CEUFast.com for partnering with me for this post. All opinions are my own and this review is...
View ArticleNurses Needing a BSN: I’ve Discovered a Revolutionary Path
I was watching TV the other day and saw this commercial for an online college I had never heard of out of the north east. It was for some sort of business or finance graduate degree, but what they...
View ArticleNurse Managers: The Solution to Your Staff Communication Problems
What’s the age-old problem that nurses and nurse managers deal with daily? COMMUNICATION. Inefficient communication. So much information is being thrown at you day after day, you’re overwhelmed before...
View ArticleMiss Colorado, Joy Behar, Michelle Collins, ABC’s The View – and a Nation of...
Updated to Sept. 26, 2015 A lot has happened in the nursing social media world and I wanted to bring everyone who was working a 12-hour shift yesterday up to speed and didn’t get a chance to see what...
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