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
This post provides information about COVID-19 resources of interest to nurses and nursing students. While the information is geared toward the nursing profession, it will also be valuable for non-nurses reading this post! This post was proofread by Grammarly** **This document contains some affiliate links. See the end of the post
Getting ready for (or being in) school is a great time to talk about productivity and strategies for forming better work habits so that you can stay focused and get things done. One of the secrets of succeeding in nursing school is forming good habits around personal routines and work
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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
Original post published August 8, 2017. Updated June 16, 2019. In this series of posts, I started talking about advancing your nursing career by deciding to go back to school for an advanced nursing degree – be it BSN, MSN, or PhD/DNP. The previous post covered the types of questions to ask
Nursing practice is complex – it’s described as an art and a science. Because nursing practice encompasses so many aspects of life, how does one come to understand what nursing really is and what it means to be a good nurse? In this Deep Dive, I explain six ways of
Nurses care for both the patient and their family members. I know you’ve advised at least one family member sitting at a patient’s bedside to get something to eat or go home and get some rest so that they could stay healthy to support their ailing loved one. A healthy nurse cares
Ever think about how much you used to read in school? As a registered nurse (RN), you’re working at caring for patients. How much time do you read now? And I mean reading scientific literature so that you can keep up with the rapid changes in medicine and in your
Original post: August 1, 2017. Updated: June 11, 2018 FYI: This full-text post is chapter 1 in my 44-page eBook: The Expert’s Guide to Getting into Nursing School: Decision Process to Interviewing. You can read this first chapter for free here or download it for future reference by clicking HERE. You can download the
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