As a usual night shift, I was taking handover from my co-worker from previous shift. She continued her patient reporting, and I was being attentive throughout that. She mentioned about a new patient admitted during her shift. After receiving report from her, I headed to see my patients. I happened to know other patients since […]
It seems that every time the news is on, H1N1 is being mentioned. A short recap will put the H1N1 news in perspective and help nurses prepare for the upcoming flu season. The H1N1 influenza first appeared in early 2009 and it quickly generated a public uproar. It resulted in countless hospitalizations, closed schools and […]
Violence was escalating in the city of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, when Seattle-based operating nurse Louise Fang arrived in early 2007 to start her first of three assignments with Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). Having recently retired from a US veterans’ hospital, Fang would now provide care at an MSF trauma center in the midst […]
While most experts agree that pursuing a medical-related job is a wise career decision, there is still concern among many nursing graduates as well as others currently in the field, that jobs are harder to find than they once were. Currently, new nurses are finding it more difficult to land jobs, particularly in large metropolitan […]
Many nurses speak disparagingly about free nursing CEUs as less than optimal training classes for new procedures or information pertinent to their practice as a nurse. True, some of the free CEU classes offered by our employers seemingly have nothing to do with the type of nursing we practice, but in tight economic times, free […]
The many possibilities for jobs in nursing can be overwhelming to the new graduate as well as the veteran nurse. I am constantly learning about nursing positions that I never knew existed. A professor once said “imagine any industry, any business and I’ll bet you can find a way to work a nursing job into […]
The recent economic woes have caused many professionals, including nurses, to delay retirement which in turn leads to an even greater risk of becoming burnt out in the profession. If we can recognize the warning signs of burnout, we can work towards bringing our life back into a healthy balance so that we are more […]
The current year-long economic recession took its toll on the nursing profession just like it did in all the other sectors of the economy. The Class of 2009 graduates of nursing schools, for example, are a bit disappointed to realize that it is now harder to land a top-paying job in many parts of the […]
Editor: Today’s post is from a guest RN writing about her experiences in travel nursing. I have recently been considering a traveling nursing job. I love to travel and there are parts of the country that I have yet to see. I have known a few travel nurses, and they all say the same thing, […]
We’ve all had them. The patient whose room we would avoid all shift if it were possible. The patient who, when receiving report from the off-going shift, made us groan. What I have found, however, is that frequently it takes a change in nursing staff to elicit a different response or different interaction than the […]
