Topics About 'Life Of A Nurse'.

Look around the floor any day, and you'll likely see one or two frantic nurses. At one time or another, we've all been that desperate nurse, or maybe we've been the deceptively outwardly calm but inwardly frantic nurse who's drowning. Why do nur...

I've been thinking a lot about getting older (and older) recently. For me, nursing was a second career. When I graduated from high school, I immediately started nursing school because that's what you did in the 70's. However, about 18 months later, I...

This article was written by someone who wishes to remain anonymous. Due to the topic and emotionally charged nature of the article, the member wanted the topic out in the open so nurses could discuss it. Because she is afraid of retribution if any of...

First, let me explain how karma worked its unfriendly magic. While working one day, my peers and I discussed how much time we had accrued in our "sick bank" and the limited ways in which we're allowed to access it. I commented, "the only way I will e...

My work-from-home journey began in February 2020. It didn't take long for me to start logging in earlier than required, and I began skipping lunches and staying on past the time I would have left the office. In the evenings, I would do a "quick" emai...

After the cardiac arrest suffered by Demar Hamlin on Monday night, the NFL made the decision to cancel the Buffalo-Cincinnati game. In a statement Friday by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell called the incident extraordinary and went on to state, "We sa...

Nursing has one of the most intense, unconventional schedules with 12-hour shifts, nights, weekends, and working regardless of weather conditions. On top of that, some nursing positions require the nurse to be on-call, so what does this mean exactly?...

"Nurse fired over social media post" seems to be a daily headline these days. Whether it's TikTok, Instagram, or another platform, posting some images and videos while on the job could have you in hot water. Not only might your job be in jeopardy, bu...

Nurse Burnout has been on the rise since the COVID-19 pandemic. Health Media has been on a streak covering its impact on nurses and its relationship with the nursing shortage. While attending the 2022 American Health Care Journalist (AHCJ) Conference...

Night Shift Someone must do it. It has its perks. The slower pace (sometimes); increased autonomy, closer relationships with your colleagues, and no suits. It also has its faults; left-over dayshift food, 8 am mandatory meetings, missing th...

You're a nurse. It’s your job to spend all day talking to patients, asking them very personal questions that you’d rather not have to ask, and handling their feelings of worry, confusion, and anger. You have your own feelings to manage, plus all the ...

My fellow nurses, I have a question for you. Do you ever think that many of our jobs require so much, too much of our time that they just kind of take over your life? Many of us work over 60 to 70 hours a week or more. It leaves little time to do any...

Setting the Stage - The Riskiest Cases As a perioperative nurse who serves in a First Assist role on our high-risk cardiovascular surgery team at a top-tier institution, we often get patients who have been refused surgical intervention at other f...

A Nurse has been selected as the first nonphysician president of the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM). Read in its entirety: First Nurse to Lead New York Medical Association

Every now and then, though, we get to care of someone who shows us exactly why we do what we do. Those cases, those patients, provide us with the inspiration we need to do our jobs despite how taxing they can be. I had the pleasure of taking care of ...

Today I remembered a 4 yr old... lifeless, so pale, except for the bruises which covered his body. I remember so vividly the parent who angrily confessed that "the boy just refused to walk right"...so he beat him to death. I thought about the terror ...

REALLY LISTEN AND REFLECT, THEN YOU WILL LEARN: First of all I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to complete a grad initiative in acute care. This was an experience where I am paired with staff RN's for six months and in a way be mentore...

Each shift "Nancy Nurse", my character, was efficient, intelligent, quick thinking, compassionate, organized, quick witted and funny. She also had excellent assessment skills, and even better intuition. She always "knew" which patients required close...

January - Newborn ICU Dream JobI was making cold hard cash. I had an awesome preceptor for orientation. I was signing my name with RN behind it, I was giving meds all by myself, I was a nurse, woo hoo, life couldn't be any better. Everything I had wo...

My Dream Job as a New ICU NurseI have always known that I was meant to be an ICU nurse. Call it intuition, divine planning, or blind ambition. Since I was a child, my dream was to heal the sick, to protect those too weak to protect themselves, and to...

Florence Nightingale, the lady with the lamp, the best in her days, this generation and perhaps in the generation yet unborn. There might have been nurses before her days but none could conceptualise nursing during her time and even for the future as...

I mentioned it to one of my co-workers, right after I did it. She said "AWWWWWW!" as you would coo at a child's accomplishments. She was delighted and mentioned it to someone else. They grinned from ear to ear, and it was obvious that they remembered...

With my minimal PPEs, I was nervous entering the room on my first day on an unfamiliar unit in the hospital. All clinic nurses had been deployed to the hospital. No training, just show up and plugged in where the need was. I told the charge RN that I...

Not a bad day today... started back per diem today. 6 cases, all in the same township. Not my usual zip codes though, so I did waste some time and scheduled visits akimbo, instead of in a line like I usually try to do. 8:00 am:6 pt's, one n...

School taught me everything I know. School taught me the delicate balance of life, how to be A FIXER. Fix problems and help patients achieve a better way of life. A patient, Lucy would teach me an entire new way of thinking...and fixing. I received L...