I have had a very rough patch not too long ago myself, so I know what it's like, but after everything I have chosen again with all my heart to be a nurse. You have to come first. It starts by taking care of yourself. Slow down now. Set your boundarie...
Filine replied to Inspired By Silence's topic in General Nursing
Since I'm from the Netherlands my primary language is Dutch. I also speak English pretty fluently and I can make myself understandable in German and French! I'm currently doing my Master in Advanced Nursing Practice, so I am really happy that my engl...
I love my job because... - I really can make a difference for another huming being, sometimes it's so small you barely even notice like a hand on a shoulder, the other day it's something as profound as saving a life - You can forever grow as a profe...
Filine replied to firstyearstudent's topic in General Nursing
A hospital microbiologist and hospital hygienist told me and my team a while back it's much better for the skin of the hands to use an antiseptic only unless the hands are visibly dirty. Then you use soap and when your hands are dry you also apply th...
I know, I KNOW. I, and so are my other two colleague's, am still in awe about how everything fit together like it was meant to be, some kind of devine intervention... What I didn't know was that earlier my colleague had almost wanted to send her home...
Did anyone ever experience a colleague collapsing or getting very ill on your unit and that your colleague became the patient? It happened to me last year, I had graduated 8 months before... I work in a long-term-care facility and our unit mainly foc...