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NCLEX

NCLEX RN Passed

by NirvanaUSRN

My full course experience. Must read.

General Nursing

NTI Interview with Dr. Cathie Guzetta

by allnurses

Is the presence of family during resuscitation important and appropriate? In the following interview, a nursing expert on the topic shares her personal...

General Nursing

My Best Deaf Patient!

by nievesa, BSN, RN

I would like to share with you an amazing history that touched my heart 12 years ago. Sometimes we have some dreams or goals in our lives and procrastinated,...

What are the results for the 2015 nursing salary survey?

General Nursing

2015 allnurses Salary Survey Results

by allnurses

allnurses.com conducted its first annual Salary Survey in January 2015 to find how various variables such as education level, licensure, experience, geographic...

General Nursing

What States Pay the Highest and Lowest Nursing Salaries

by allnurses

Every nurse is interested in knowing how their salary compares to that of others. The new grad who is searching for that first job wants to know where the...

Pediatric

Pharmacological Management of Osteogenesis Imperfecta in Children …

by 1PedsRN2another

Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) is a rare inherited disorder which effects type one collagen throughout the body. At the current time, there is no pharmacologic...

General Nursing

Where Do Most Nurses Work?

by allnurses

Watch for the upcoming release of the allnurses annual salary survey, June 14th. Our interactive graphs will let you see how many demographics might affect the...

How is the comparison between the number of ADN and BSN RNs at your place of work?

General Students

BSN and Associate Nurses Are Neck and Neck. Will This Change?

by allnurses

The allnurses 2015 Salary Survey results will be hitting the site June 14th with interactive graphs and statistics. Based on the data obtained from more than...

Why do you think male nurses earn more than female nurses?

General Nursing

Although Women Dominate the Nursing Profession, Do Men Make More M…

by allnurses

According to our 2015 Salary Survey, although 92% of the nursing workforce are female, male nurses make more. We will have more details from AN’s survey of...

General Nursing

What Nurses really Want to Say When They Chart

by SICUshortCait

A peek into what we are really thinking when we jot down that clinical note...

Hospice

I have no words. I have a thousand words.

by anon456, BSN, RN

A typical day on a hospice unit, told by a nurse who recently left the ICU. A shift in mindset, balancing patient care with paperwork, and knowing at the end of...

What do you wish you'd learned before becoming a nurse?

General Nursing

Nurses Share 10 Critical Tips They Never Learned in Nursing School

by Rasmussen University

Becoming a nurse is long and sometimes arduous journey. It takes years of schooling and healthy doses of patience, persistence and poise....

Nurse Beth

I Left Work Sick- Can I be Charged With Patient Abandonment?

by Nurse Beth, MSN

The short answer to whether you can be charged with patient abandonment is .... probably not. But it depends. Read on to learn more...

General Nursing

Why is there a Bully on the Playground?

by Ahvegas

Today we are faced with potential violence and anger in our workplace, just watch the news. Will we ever stop talking about it and change how we look at this...

General Nursing

It's a Stressed Out Job

by janemulligan

Let me make one thing clear: This is not a post about how nursing is incredible and how this is a job about working yourself to the bone. It's about how a nurse...

If you have a learning disability, what helped you most?

General Nursing

Resources for Nurses and Nursing Students With Learning Disabiliti…

by Donna Maheady

Are you one of the reported 15% to 20% of Americans affected by a learning disability or disorder? The good news is that resources are available to help nurses...

General Specialties

Telenursing: The Future of Nursing

by lilcyn, BSN, RN

Telenursing is becoming the wave of the future. Would you ever consider assessing your patient through a computer screen?

PICU

The Agony of Ecstasy, Act 2 - NTI 2016 Session

by NotReady4PrimeTime, RN

In Act 1 we looked at an overview of the impact designer drugs may have on those who experiment with them. Now let’s get a little deeper into the ugly side of...

NCLEX

Passed on the 3rd Try - Tips to Pass NCLEX-RN (On a Budget Too)

by RC1990, RN

I wrote this in hopes that I could help someone out there who is struggling to pass NCLEX-RN (knowledge-related and financially-related). It can be done. Read...

General Nursing

NTI 2016: Family Presence During Resuscitation?!

by traumaRUs, MSN, APRN

Family presence during resuscitation is a hot topic. We are all faced with a better-informed public then ever before. allnurses recently discussed this topic...

General Nursing

NTI 2016 Moral Courage

by traumaRUs, MSN, APRN

NTI 2016 has so many sessions. Hard to chose just a few. So little time. This one on moral decisions though just resonates with so much of what we do....

PICU

The Agony of Ecstasy in PICU and Other Tales... a Play in 3 Acts -…

by NotReady4PrimeTime, RN

Street drugs are only one of the hazards children are exposed to. We can't protect them all the time so knowing what they might be doing - and what it might do...

General Nursing

Transitioning From Healthcare Into Wellness

by Carol Ebert, MSN, RN

Are you in the second half of your career and itching for a change? Wondering what your next challenge is and wishing it has something to do with wellness and...

NCLEX

Passed the NCLEX (2nd Time)

by ladeesse

Experience on passing the NCLEX test & all the content study material that I have used wit detail information of all them & how i used each material to my...

Advanced

To the APRN Curriculum Critics

by Psychcns

There has been a lot of criticism and heckling of APRN education in this forum. This is an essay to inspire people with opinions to take constructive action