PositiveEnergy MSN, PhD, RN, APN

PositiveEnergy has 46 years experience as a MSN, PhD, RN, APN and specializes in Family, Maternal-Child Health.

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1. Tips for New Nurses Entering the Workforce

   PositiveEnergy replied to Alicia Otto's topic in New Nurse

   All good points. So true about life-long learning. When you really begin to practice you realize how much there is to learn, and how little you really know in the big picture. So keep on asking the "whys" and "hows" and not be afraid to say "I don...

2. Mental Imagery: Bring Your Best Nursing Game

   PositiveEnergy replied to Laura-Lee Nuttall's topic in General Nursing

   The old saying, "a picture is worth a thousands words" came to mind when I read this. Essentially your mental visualization is providing you a wealth of direction/information to guide you through your daily procedural challenges. I cheer you o...

3. Nocturnal Muscle Cramps

   PositiveEnergy replied to Danielle BSN's topic in Education

   Certainly a noninvasive intervention and worth at least trying for those who suffer from cramping.

4. Nocturnal Muscle Cramps

   PositiveEnergy replied to Danielle BSN's topic in Education

   In general my experience both professionally and with family members who have noctural leg cramping is that finding something that effectively, and most importantly, continuously relieves leg cramping rarely happens. Hence as listed by individuals i...

5. Advice For a New Instructor Please!

   PositiveEnergy replied to New-Instructor's topic in General Nursing

   Well said.

6. Advice For a New Instructor Please!

   PositiveEnergy replied to New-Instructor's topic in General Nursing

   Excellent ideas here. Because students aren't often directed to do some of these needed task they don't even think about them - especially those things patients need upon discharge to assimilate back into their home life. Even some seasoned inpatie...

7. Advice For a New Instructor Please!

   PositiveEnergy replied to New-Instructor's topic in General Nursing

   "The energy is kind of bad on the unit." "My students literally cried about..." I read these statements above and had flashes of all the conferences, papers written, general presentations, and professional dialogue on "Nurses Bullying Nurses" ...

8. Advice For a New Instructor Please!

   PositiveEnergy replied to New-Instructor's topic in General Nursing

   The first thing that jumps out at me is not to give the staff the task of writing out your student assignments. You might involve the staff by asking them which patients might benefit/appreciate having a student assigned to them and what nurses are ...

9. Scammers Caught Selling Fake Nursing Diplomas

   PositiveEnergy replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Headlines

   So many options of how this evolved. WIll probably take several years to even figure out the truth. What always amazes me is the number of people who jump on the band wagon and go along with such dishonesty.

10. Scammers Caught Selling Fake Nursing Diplomas

    PositiveEnergy replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Headlines

    Very interesting article. The unassuring take away from this information is this is just one of the fraudulent operations that got caught - after much investigation too, and years of pumping out "fake" nurses before they got caught. Hope the take a...

11. 11 Things to Remember When Nursing Gets Hard

    PositiveEnergy replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    Reflecting on those patients who have touched my life. I think of those patients who have caused me to pause and recall something special about our encounter. Not what I left them with, but rather what they left me with. Those special stories I ha...

12. 10 Tips for Nurses Working on the Holiday

    PositiveEnergy replied to Melissa Mills's topic in Career Support

    I was glad to see this article. Leaving loved ones and heading off to work is challenging on holidays. But as you pointed out, coming up with creative strategies can help make heading into work a little bit easier on these days. I worked in Obstet...

13. How to Prepare for and Manage Sundowning Patients

    PositiveEnergy replied to Rachelle Klein's topic in Med-Surg

    Thank you for sharing this information. As a nurse, as well as a person who has dealt with this issue in a family member, awareness and education is so vital. I think so often nurses do learn about Sundowning at least sometime in their schooling, b...

14. New Grad Nurse: What I Didn't See Coming

    PositiveEnergy replied to raven_h17's topic in New Nurse

    First congrats on passing the NCLEX and becoming a new RN. Nursing school is a challenging major - no easy way through. Your article interested me because I have many nursing years under my belt. So I was curious what you would perceive as a major...

15. My Home Health Patient Died

    PositiveEnergy replied to Avill's topic in General Nursing

    This feeling of loss and sense of death is the part of nursing that I believe makes you human. When you develop that connection with a patient that you sense is different from your relationship with your other patients, you will feel a sense of heav...