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 [...]

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 [...]

Editor#8217;s Note: Today#8217;s post is by a guest RN, if you#8217;d like to write for our blog contact us. I don’t work in my community. I drive 25 miles to the northern end of another county to work as a cardiac nurse. I didn’t think about the location affecting my interaction with patients and other health [...]

Editor#8217;s Note: Today#8217;s post is by a guest RN, if you#8217;d like to write for our blog contact us. I don’t work in my community. I drive 25 miles to the northern end of another county to work as a cardiac nurse. I didn’t think about the location affecting my interaction with patients and other health [...]

A sort of #8220;us#8221; vs. #8220;them#8221; mentality takes hold when nurses from these two different employment settings takes place. Each feels they have the better of both worlds, but is one setting really more desirable than the other? Some very important and some lighthearted benefits apply to both places: The hospital is a 24/7 world of [...]

A sort of #8220;us#8221; vs. #8220;them#8221; mentality takes hold when nurses from these two different employment settings takes place. Each feels they have the better of both worlds, but is one setting really more desirable than the other? Some very important and some lighthearted benefits apply to both places: The hospital is a 24/7 world of [...]

The permanent nursing position. The stuff that new grads dream of. But is the permanent position the one that will work best for you? A permanent nursing job brings steady work and steady pay with the option of full benefits. Holiday pay, medical benefits, vacation time add thousands of dollars worth of incentive to work [...]

The permanent nursing position. The stuff that new grads dream of. But is the permanent position the one that will work best for you? A permanent nursing job brings steady work and steady pay with the option of full benefits. Holiday pay, medical benefits, vacation time add thousands of dollars worth of incentive to work [...]

Long hailed by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics as a nationwide crisis in the making, we are in the middle of a nursing shortage. Or are we? According to the latest stats of March 6, 2009, 27,000 new healthcare jobs were made available in February and 681,000 jobs, in general, were lost. Some of [...]

Long hailed by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics as a nationwide crisis in the making, we are in the middle of a nursing shortage. Or are we? According to the latest stats of March 6, 2009, 27,000 new healthcare jobs were made available in February and 681,000 jobs, in general, were lost. Some of [...]