You’ve survived your senior year in Nursing School and graduated with your degree – Congratulations! You may have already secured your first nursing position, or you are in still in the hunt. Either way, the tips in this post will help you establish yourself as a registered nurse in your
This blog theme contains career advice about the things you need to do to transition from student to professional nurse. In this blog post, I’ll share six tips to help you get to the top of the applicant pool by standing out in your nursing job interview. This series of
I’m very excited to welcome Ryan Bucci as a guest author this month! Ryan Bucci is a Content Strategist with HospitalCareers. HospitalCareers has over 25,000+ hospital jobs, career advice, and career insights for hospital and healthcare job seekers. Since May is a time of transition for many, I’ve asked Ryan to
The posts this month focused on concept analysis: what it is, how to search for published articles on concept analysis, and commonly used concept analysis methods and frameworks used in nursing theory and nursing research. Last week I presented an overview of Walker and Avant’s concept analysis method. Today’s post introduces
The first two posts of this series on concept analysis laid out the purpose of concept analysis and how to search for concept analysis articles and research. This post will begin an overview some of the commonly used concept analysis methods and frameworks used in nursing theory and nursing research.
Last week I described the definition and purpose of a concept analysis. In this post, I’ll talk about the difference between concept analysis and concept development, give you some tips on how to do a concept analysis search, and identify several theoretical frameworks to guide your concept analysis journey. What
In evidence-based practice, an overview of one or more evidence sources is said to be synthesized or summarized. Synthesis evidence is a big help for busy clinicians because the hard work of critical appraisal of each of the included studies is done already! However, the clinician STILL has to critically appraise
Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are summaries of best evidence, ideally from rigorous systematic reviews, which are then delineated as recommendations for practice. CPGs are a big help for busy clinicians – IF the CPG is based on evidence that is reliable and valid! This post will provide a “How
One way to focus your work projects is to “chunk” your work. This post will give you 8 tips for breaking your next work or school project into chunks so that you can decrease the overwhelm, see your progress going forward, and have the satisfaction of crossing steps off your
Guest Author: Melissa H. Wolak I’m very excited to welcome my friend and colleague Melissa H. Wolak, MS, CCC-SLP as a guest author again this month! Ms. Wolak is a Transformation Coach, Speaker, and Speech-Language Pathologist in Boulder, Colorado. To read her latest “brain changer” posts and find out more about
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