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There's a fantastic audio session that calculates exactly how much a nurse is worth. It's pretty rudimentary, but I highly recommend having a listen: How Much is a Nurse Worth? | Episode 11 | The Handover Podcast |

Yeah sorry, reporting. =)

Handover is one of the most controversial subjects in nursing. It is difficult. It feels pointless sometimes. It takes forever. Is handover still necessary? Honestly, you could be assessing patients instead of hearing the (sometimes) half-baked opinions of your coworkers. However, what they say could also help you better serve your patients. Listening to handover may help you avoid reinventing the wheel. Your coworker may also have insights that could elude you if you walk into a situation cold. Of course, simply knowing what the patient has done the previous shift is helpful as well.

Pharmacists aren't medicine coordinators. Podiatrists aren't feet carers. So why do nurses get assigned all of these cryptic titles? I'm a Nurse. Not a care coordinator, nor a facility manager, nor a care manager, nor a nurse manager. I'm a nurse. My title is Nurse. I just came across this awesome article highlighting the gradual decay in clarity of our title over the past few years. In particular within aged and community care. It's a must read, and certainly has me changing my thinking about these cryptic titles we're being assigned. The article is here: 'Nurse' - Why We Must Preserve Our Title' I implore you to share and broadcast it widely!

It's become a cliché about nurses: they aren't very nice to the newer nurses that come on the floor. Of course, nursing is not a profession for coddling, but new grads need help. They can't be thrown to the sharks and expected to be successful. Those are the opening lines of an article on how we can help grad nurses. It's stirring quite a bit of debate, especially on Facebook too... How do young nurses treat the experienced nurses of our profession? Are the young eating the old too? Does strong leadership solve this problem? Is this a really BIG problem? What do others think????

Nursing is a profession that relies heavily on collaboration. Collaboration between doctors, allied health yes. But, more importantly, collaboration between nurses. When you work as a nurse, you rely heavily on your nursing colleagues to get you through the day. Everybody working together for the good of the patients is a great feeling, and it can turn a bad shift into an empowering example of the muscle of nursing collaboration. However, with the animosity that can sometimes build up between co-workers, it is important to come up with ways to be supportive and not derisive. Yes, nursing is hard, and yes, you may not have the time to help. That's not what supporting means. It means being there for your colleagues when they are overwhelmed to the point of collapse. Working together means sharing the load, helping someone today because you may be the one who needs help tomorrow. I'd love to hear stories of nurses supporting nurses. Please share!

A mix of both I reckon. Technology, like mHealth for example, will support nurses and midwives to provide care.

It's definitely not ok for a doctor to yell at a nurse. Obviously we all lose our cool at some stage, but collaboration is key in healthcare. This article might help? https://www.ausmed.com/articles/collaboration-in-healthcare/

From what I understand, these types of tumours are quite difficult to remove as the tentacle like cells wrap around the neurons, but this article has a pretty good explanation of the nursing considerations of a GBM.

Whoa, that's a pretty big lesson to learn. Knowing what to do when a medication error occurs is pretty important though. It's good to see your preceptor helped out in such a calm way, like you say though "never again". You find a few of these articles of use: Medical error, incident investigation and the second victim: doing better but feeling worse? -- Wu and Steckelberg 21 (4): 267 -- BMJ Quality and Safety https://www.ausmed.com/articles/investigating-medication-errors/ Australian Open Disclosure Framework | Safety and Quality

Sure, here you go: https://www.ausmed.com/articles/leading-with-emotional-intelligence/

I recently came across a great article on emotional intelligence in nursing. It listed 5 attributes of successful nurse leaders. I ticked four of them. How many of the five boxes did you tick? Self-awareness Self-regulation Motivation Empathy Social skills Is this list comprehensive though? What would you include?