Best Tips for Nurses - WIN $250! Nurses Week Contest 2018

[Brian S.]

You're overflowing with awesome tips. Now you can share them and have a chance to win money! For our fifth National Nurses Week 2018 Contest we want to hear your best tip for nurses. Maybe it's perfectly suited for an experienced nurse or maybe it works best for a nurse who is just entering the workforce. Whatever the case, tell us best tip for nurses in the comments below and you could be the winner of one of two $250 Amazon.com gift cards.

Even if our panel of all-knowing udges doesn't choose you as a grand prize winner, you could still be selected as one of two runner-ups and receive a cool prize package including everything shown below and MORE!

What are you waiting for? Let us know your best tip and get that much closer to winning!

There are more contests, too...

• Fill in the Blank Contest
  
• National Nurses Week Cartoon Caption Contest (sponsored bu rukuku)
  
• Patients Say the Darnedest Things Contest (sponsored by relode)
  
• Create a Meme Contest (sponsored by Performance Health)
  

Have fun, thanks to all of the nurses across the country and Happy National Nurses Week!!

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UPDATED May 11 ... and the winner is...

As promised, the winner are posted below. Thanks for all of the awesome and creative entries!!! Feel free to share!

[jaxanangel]

Learn to chart, not only can it save your job, but it is horrible dealing with a patient when you can't figure out what the last nurse has done or said to this patient already.

[mdcp]

It's ok to take that potty break!

[Peacefulhippy88, CNA]

If a patient is angry, give them a hug. If a patient is sad, give them a hug. If a patient is hurting, give them a hug. A hug is a powerful dose of pain relief that not all medications can cure.

[Joe V]

GREAT TIPS!! Keep them coming. Two winners will win Amazon $250 gift cards!!!!!

[mvarelamanso]

Never say it is quiet when it is, cause if you do the crap hits the fan and it's non stop from that point on.

[Missann235]

Do it all as if the one you cherish most were the patient.

[Danagiff]

It is so easy to get to the point of burn out. Take your own health (mental, physical, and emotional) seriously. It's hard to take care of others if you don't take care of yourself!!

[aleah2222]

Nursing is a 24-hour job, you will not be able to get everything done. It is ok to leave it for the next shift.

[nursedalena]

In order to stay calm to think clearly to save your patient that is "circling the drain", think "it's not my emergency, it's theirs." This will help you see and think clearly to save your patient instead of being panicked and not doing what you could be to save their life in a timely manner!

[ndrake2]

Always be an advocate for the patient oh and as the nurse make sure you eat, pee and drink!

[MKennedyrn]

Encourage patients to see the glass half full no matter what; encouragement gives them a positive attitude and an overall better experience in caring for them!

[Kimmedic]

Remember why you became a nurse.