by Elizabeth | Aug 8, 2016 | Blog, Nursing career
Whether you graduate right out of college or find yourself in a second (or third) career- being a new graduate nurse can be tough. You made it through nursing school, yet now you are thrown into the ‘real world’ of healthcare… which can be scary stuff! As experienced...
by Elizabeth | Aug 1, 2016 | Blog, Nursing career
Of course nurses need to be caring, kind, and compassionate. A nurse also needs to be a good listener, problem solver, and educator. Yet so often when we hear the term ‘nurse’, we think of a middle-aged woman, working in a hospital, in some type of scrub...
by Elizabeth | Jul 18, 2016 | Blog, Nursing career
I don’t know about you, but nursing is a busy career. Working 12 hour (OK, let’s be honest… who gets out in twelve hours anymore?) shifts, taking calls at home, covering short staffing… I mean the list goes on and on (and on). In fact, a few...
by Elizabeth | Jul 11, 2016 | Nursing career
As potential nursing students take time this summer to decide whether or not a nursing career is for them… I thought that we’d utilize this week’s blog space to help them out. While this blog could be aimed specifically at young men and women who are...
by Elizabeth | Jul 5, 2016 | Blog, Nursing career
As a nurse, how do you handle change? I’m sure you’ve looked around the workplace once or twice in your life and realized that things are way different than they were ten years, five years, three years, or even six months ago! The healthcare environment is...
by Elizabeth | Jun 6, 2016 | Blog, Leadership, Nursing career
June is National Patient Safety Month and nurses are a captive audience when it comes to safety measures in the workplace. When a nurse feels that there nursing unit is unsafe, they can be compelled to DO something about it. It is crucial that we set up systems and...
