Category Archives: How-To

Start the New Year with a Clean Slate

Happy New Year! The celebration of a New Year marks a natural transition in everyone’s life — we leave one year behind to start another.   So that’s kind of fun, right? I mean, it gives you an opportunity to begin again. There do not seem to be many times in

Tips for Mental Health Wellness: Personal and Interpersonal Strategies

Guest Author: I’m pleased to welcome Sharleen Lucas, RN, WEMT, OEC as a guest author to the Nursing Education Expert blog. Sharleen is an acute care nurse who now spends her time as a freelance health content writer. She is the creator of RNextdoor.com. For more on Sharleen, scroll to

Tips for Mental Health Wellness: Intrapersonal Strategies

Guest Author: I’m pleased to welcome Sharleen Lucas, RN, WEMT, OEC as a guest author to the Nursing Education Expert blog. Sharleen is an acute care nurse who now spends her time as a freelance health content writer. She is the creator of RNextdoor.com. For more on Sharleen, scroll to

Five Tips for Success in Your Undergraduate Nursing Program

This post provides general tips to help you be successful in your undergraduate nursing program. These tips will work regardless of the type of undergraduate nursing program you are enrolled in or the format of your classes (e.g., online, traditional classroom, or for your clinical rotation). This post was proofread

Tips for Getting the Most out of the APA Publication Manual

In my nursing programs, all formal papers had to be written using the American Psychological Association (APA) Style Guidelines. So I learned APA style, as required. I really learned it.  Other than revisions for a new edition, once I learned APA, I didn’t have to learn it again — I

Professionalism: How to List Your Credentials

I’ve gotten questions from students and readers about how to list their credentials, so I thought I’d give you some quick tips based on what I was taught and from my experience as an editorial board member. This post discusses why credentials are important, how to list your credentials for

Grammar and Spelling Count! Tips for Writing Academic Papers

As a nursing student, you will be required to submit many written assignments in the form of care plans, reports, reflection papers, journal entries, research papers, and the like. In all of these assignments, your attention to grammar and spelling will be essential to getting your point across and getting

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