by Elizabeth | Jan 9, 2017 | Blog, Nursing career, Resilience
Prayer with a Patient? About a month ago, I posted a question to nurses and nursing students on social media. It raised a lot of interesting and diverse discussion. The question was: [Tweet “”How do you feel when a patient asks you to pray with them? Is it...
by Elizabeth | Jan 3, 2017 | Blog, Nursing career
New Year. New You. Happy New Year to everyone here reading! Gosh, another year is about to start. This can mean so many things for nurses and nursing students. A chance to reflect. The first thing I like to do when starting out with something new- is to look at how...
by Elizabeth | Dec 19, 2016 | Nursing career
Guest Post by Debra James I don’t know about you, but I had this nursing thing all worked out. I’d put in my 3 years med-surge, then move on to my love of geriatric Alzheimer’s/dementia patients. I’d become the pre-eminent nursing expert for...
by Elizabeth | Dec 12, 2016 | Blog, Leadership, Nursing career
Happy Nurses = Happy Patients. So, before I start off on the content of this post… let me point out that this post is for any nurse. Sure, the title may make it sound like I am speaking only to nurse managers, nursing supervisors, or nurses in leadership...
by Elizabeth | Nov 7, 2016 | Blog, Nursing career
A Day in the Life of a Nurse I recently wrote a blog post highlighting just how different the start of a nursing shift can be. In that article, I pointed out how mindset can impact the flow of your work day. Focus on the negatives and you get more of them. Or pay...
by Elizabeth | Oct 31, 2016 | Blog, Nursing career
Negativity in Nursing Last month I published an article about negativity in nursing. I articulated how there is a lot of social media posts that shed negative light on the nursing profession. And how I was fed up with it! Well, I must admit there is something good...
