Hello! I'm a staff nurse in a pediatric emergency department, and also work as a clinical instructor for a BSN program.
Magnet designation- what’s the big deal? This article, written from a staff nurse perspective in a hospital which just recently achieved “Magnet”, takes a...
While new nursing students often are very focused on their hands-on nursing skills, they don’t always realize that some of the most important skills as a...
I used to think I didn’t have what it took to be a nurse. So I didn’t go to school to become one. When it came time to choose a major, I didn’t even...
Preceptors deserve a lot of credit. Being a preceptor, working one-on-one with a nursing student or a new graduate nurse, twelve hours at a time, is often both...
In the past couple of years I have been asked to serve as an expert nurse witness for several medical-legal cases. The downside of consulting for medical-legal...
Children are so resilient. When they are sick, their young bodies compensate in amazing ways, often for quite a while- until they don’t anymore. For any nurse...
Once you become a nurse, “ABCs” no longer refer to the beginning of the alphabet. They are the first critical steps of the primary assessment: Airway,...
Nurses spend most of their careers giving to others...they continuously give of their time, their minds and their hearts as they provide the best care for their...
Nursing students never cease to amaze me. They absorb so much more than we often realize in the clinical environment. They are constantly listening, observing,...
I'm a pediatric emergency nurse, and with the help of my peers, I feel prepared to handle just about any pediatric emergency. We have the luxury of access to...
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