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
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
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
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
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
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
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
One of the most important interventions nurses provide to patients and clients is to administer medications. The original “five rights” of medication administration taught in all nursing schools have been expanded to seven rights – and I’ve seen as many as 12 Rights suggested. This post will explain the basic Rights of Medication
How to “do” Dimensional Analysis is a timely topic as many nursing schools have moved to this method of teaching medication calculations (Greenfield, Whelan, & Cohn, 2006; Toney-Butler & Wilcox, 2019). At first, this method can seem really intimidating. But once you learn it, you will find that you can use
Guest Author: Holly Clark Welcome to Holly Clark, a guest author this month! Ms. Clark is the community manager for FirstCare.ie – providers of, and experts in, elderly care from Ireland! For more details about Holly and FirstCare.ie scroll to the end of this post. Communication is an
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