by Elizabeth | Feb 12, 2016 | Art of Nursing, Blog |
Nurses work with a wide variety of patients on a daily basis. Specialty work can include areas such as oncology, emergency, and psychiatric nursing, to name a few. Then there is the age difference. Nurses take care of neonates, geriatric patients, and everything in...
by Elizabeth | Feb 8, 2016 | Blog, Burnout |
An Unconventional Burnout Prevention Plan There is often a thin line on how much personal information a nurse may share about him or herself. The nurse may worry how sharing what he or she is struggling with will be perceived by peers. “Are they going to think I...
by Elizabeth | Feb 1, 2016 | Blog, Leadership, Nursing career |
Now that we’ve completed the first month of this 2016 year, it can be a good time to reassess the plans that you made for the New Year. As a nurse, often we look at our nursing careers to see how far they have come and what we would like to accomplish in the...
by Elizabeth | Jan 29, 2016 | Art of Nursing, Blog |
Recently I received an email from a nurse, struggling to balance being a nurse with… well, quite frankly… being a nurse. I’ll share it here (anonymously and with slight shifts to protect this nurse’s privacy) as through simply reading this...
by Elizabeth | Jan 25, 2016 | Blog, Leadership |
One of the biggest challenges faced by today’s nursing leader is retaining quality staff. Nurses come into the profession with their perception of the role and find, once involved in a job as a nurse, that this may be different than what they had expected. I...
by Elizabeth | Jan 19, 2016 | Blog, Nursing career |
In the healthcare environment, nurses relate to and deal with so many people on any given day. Nurses are taking calls from patient family members. They interact with various departments in the workplace such as custodial, dietary, and central stores. A nurse must be...
