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I just want to share my personal experience moving to Canada to work as a nurse. And, I would like to encourage anybody who is dreaming to move to Canada to...
Are you struggling with nursing school? These handful of tips will help you change your day and your grades as you work your way into your career.
This is a breakdown I did of all the important topics I see in the book. I WILL NOT POST TEST QUESTIONS. I hope this helps someone.
Not everyone LIKES night shift, but all of us can survive it and many (if not most) of us have to work it at one time or another. Here's how to survive.
Everyone makes mistakes. It's what you do afterward that makes you an honorable human being and a good nurse . . . or not.
Alphabet Soup: We speak the same language.
Auscultation is the action of listening to sounds from the heart and lungs with a stethoscope. As a student you will need to understand the sounds for your...
Thoughts on helping families who are grieving an expected or unexpected perinatal death
As a young US Army nurse away from home for my first Christmas, I learned an important lesson from a patient.
Alone for Christmas for the very first time, and a stranger in the big city, I learned that city folk and country folk aren't so different after all.
Sometimes a special person comes into our lives for a moment and reminds us that what really matters is not how much we have, but how much we care for one...
This article presents what nurses have to endure on a daily basis. I just want people to understand that it takes a lot of heart to do our job. Honestly, nurses...
Nurses rely on others to give them the praise and acknowledgment, but still, feel unappreciated. This is because they are looking for positive cues from people...
In the midst of a Friday swing shift (otherwise known in the hospital industry as "Boot 'Em Out to the Nursing Homes Day"), a lone nurse responsible for 42...
Here is a study guide composed by 3 students to help us pass the HESI exit and NCLEX exams.
Tips for nurses caring for patients with home CPAP machines.
This is the first in what will be an occasional series, loosely based on the AARP Magazine's monthly column "What I Know About (blank)". Intended mainly for...
This is a detailed account of the night that I first learned that I passed the licensure exam. I know many nurses can relate to it.
Cross Country Healthcare collaborates with nearly any type of healthcare professional, including nurses, to meet staffing needs across the country. The company...
This case study was inspired by a late-night encounter in the ER. Unfortunately, medication mismanagement scenarios such as these are all too common in the...
First I should say this is what I have seen in North Carolina as I am sure there are some differences by state. I took the NCLEX and did not pass, and after...
In homage to an allnurses member who wrote a wonderful article entitled "Nurses Are So Mean", I'd like to provide excerpts from my personal blog which I wrote...
Okay I'm exaggerating. I'm average, the biggest procrastinator on earth and absolutely lazy to study. Sounds familiar? So you can just imagine how scared I was...
At the beginning of every school year, I assign my junior high students to draw two pictures - one of a physician and the other of a nurse. See, there's a...
A nurse is their own person with their own ideas but some ways of thinking are beneficial to nurses. Their philosophy shapes the way they work and interact.