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Wound

Hyperbaric Nursing

Hyperbaric Nursing is the nursing specialty involving the care of the patient undergoing hyperbaric therapy. This could be a patient who has the "bends" from a...

General Students

Advice for Nursing Students: How to Thrive at Clinical Rotations

by Lev, MSN, RN, NP

My unit at a community hospital has a great number of nursing students from two RN schools and one LPN school. While the staff greatly appreciates having the...

Urology

Urology Nursing

by traumaRUs, MSN, APRN

Urology nursing is the care of a patient's intimate needs. All the patients will be discussing complaints of a private nature so overcoming the private nature...

Humor

If You Give a Patient a Cookie

by Mully

I am under the impression that it's impossible not to take pleasure in at least a little bit of dark humor as a nurse. It just comes with the territory. Much...

Government

Government Nursing

by Lunah, MSN, RN

Government nursing is a specialty that spans all areas of nursing in service to the federal government or other agencies. Nurses working for the government can...

Government

Military Nursing

by Lunah, MSN, RN

Military nurses work in all nursing specialties while serving in the military or other uniform service. Let's dive into an overview of this specialty, discuss...

Rural

Rural Nurse: What are the Duties and Responsibilities?

by traumaRUs, MSN, APRN

Rural nurses face some special difficulties. However, the rewards are great. Here is your forum....

Uniform/Gear

Review of Littmann 3200 Electronic Stethoscope

by traumaRUs, MSN, APRN

Have you ever tried to listen to lungs and hearts while the pt is hooked up to a dialysis machine and they are using a right IJ perm-cath? Well....it isn't...

Disabilities

A Nurse with POTS Disability: A Great Success Story!

by CrazyCoconut

Imagine yourself back in nursing school again, but only this time, you can't answer your instructor's patho questions quickly like you did in A&P, in which you...

Burn

Burn Nursing

by traumaRUs, MSN, APRN

Burn nurses serve a wide selection of patients. They might be caring for a teenager with multi-system trauma or a 27 year old who was injured when he came into...

How can a nurse with mental illness achieve wellness?

Disabilities

Calling In Sick: Dealing With Mental Illness At Work, Part 3

by VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN

The series continues with a look at some of the ways nurses with mental health challenges can help themselves to achieve and maintain wellness. We also discuss...

General Nursing

Nursing: Moment by Moment

by Charslight

In Nursing, we cannot save the world. Our work and the joys reaped are measured in moments. We have to be awake and pay attention in order to see those moments,...

Urology

Dialysis and Renal Nursing

by traumaRUs, MSN, APRN

As the US population ages, renal disease is entering many families. There is a growing need for nurses skilled in caring for these often-times very complex...

Excelsior

The Clinical Performance in Nursing Exam (CPNE): what the heck is …

by Lunah, MSN, RN

After writing an overview of EC's ADN program in early 2013, I thought I'd shed some light on the most daunting part of this program: the Clinical Performance...

NP Students

Simmons University School of Nursing FNP online program

by TashaLPN2006RN2012, ASN, RN

Information on requirements for Simmons University FNP program.

Success

My Defining Moment As A Nurse

by marty6001, EdD, EMT-P, APRN

Despite thousands of hours as a nurse, one phone call at home changed everything for me forever. It's funny how poised we can be while working with patients,...

Florida

Getting your Florida License via Endorsement: A Detailed How-To Gu…

by NurseNightOwl, BSN, RN

I had to do a lot of digging to figure this out. So, I'm putting everything in writing in hopes that it help others.

How does depression and other mental health conditions affect nurses in the workplace?

Disabilities

Calling In Sick: Dealing With Mental Illness At Work, Part 1

by VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN

Inspired by discussions with allnurses members and others, this is the first in a brief series of articles about how anxiety, depression and other mental health...

Government

Tactical Nudity and Other Fun Aspects of Deployed Army Nursing

by Lunah, MSN, RN

In my last Army Nursing article, I was preparing to deploy. Now seven months after that article, I am almost halfway done with my deployment! It's been an...

Spirituality

Losing my religion

by jadelpn, LPN, EMT-B

Ah, the lively religious debate. As nurses, we all take care of a multitude of patients, all with specific, and sometimes not so specific, emotional/spiritual...

NCLEX

NCLEX-RN - Don't Give Up!

by NewYorkNurse88

You finished pre-requisites, completed nursing school, and have officially graduated from a nursing program. All that is left to do, is pass the dreaded,...

What is it like to work weekends in a nursing facility?

General Nursing

Hearts and Entertainment | Life of a Nurse

by VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN

Here's a story about a wild-and-crazy Saturday in a skilled nursing facility when staff and patients alike combine to keep each other off-balanced, confused,...

Career Support News

Nurses in trouble get second chances - Minnesota

by Brian, ASN, RN

Front page lead story in the Sunday Star Tribune investigates the Disciplinary actions of the Minnesota State Board of Nursing. Minnesota rarely throws nurses...

Government

Shutdown

by SoldierNurse22, BSN, RN

Located deep in Any State, USA, at the MEDDAC on Fort Somewhere: A rare look inside the experience of an active duty Army nurse during the government shutdown...

NCLEX

How I Passed NCLEX Different Methods

by aramis2121

Hi everyone! Great news I passed NCLEX on my first try as of this morning. Pearson Vue Trick approved! Then the FDOH site at 12 pm today confirmed. WOOT WOOT!